Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Entomología
Citation
Spanish National Museum of Natural Sciences (CSIC) (2018). Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Entomología. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/pqfubx accessed via GBIF.org on 2018-10-18.Description
The collection of insects of the MNCN (Madrid, Spain) constitutes the most valuable scientific section in this Museum. It holds about 4,000,000 specimens from almost all over the world, being its main strength the Iberian Peninsula, Canary Islands, Morocco and Equatorial Guinea. It keeps some 25,000 type specimens, representing some 6,100 taxa. Strong points are Orthoptera (s.l.), Coleoptera and Hymenoptera.Iberian Orthopteroids, some Coleoptera and Hymenoptera are accessible online Note: this dataset was previously orphaned. It has been rescued by ① extracting it from the GBIF.org index (see GBIF Download in External Data) and ② republishing it on this IPT data hosting centre as version 1.0.Taxonomic Coverages
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Contacts
Miguel Ángel Alonso Zarazagaadministrative point of contact
Telephone: +34 91 411 13 28 ext. 1110
email: zarazaga@mncn.csic.es
Mercedes París
technical point of contact
Telephone: +34 91 411 13 28 ext. 1104
email: m.paris@mncn.csic.es
Amparo Blay
technical point of contact
Telephone: +34 91 411 13 28 ext. 1104
email: a.blay@mncn.csic.es
Katia Cezón
administrative point of contact
Telephone:
email: katia@gbif.es