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VIT - Lepidotheca (The Natural History Museum of Álava)

Citation

de Olano I, Infante Sánchez M (2023). VIT - Lepidotheca (The Natural History Museum of Álava). Version 1.2. Natural History Museum of Alava (Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Álava / Arabako Natura Zientzien Museoa). Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15470/zfqjri accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-09-22.

Description

The Lepidotheca of the Natural Science Museum of Álava contains 80,000 specimens, 75,600 of them databased, belonging to 5,831 taxa. The collection began in 1974 and the main collectors have been Ibon de Olano, Juan María Marcos, Sigfrido Serrano, José María Salazar, Javier Gastón, Tomás Molina, Txema Revilla, Jesús Méndez Garnica, Fernando de Juana, José Sebastián Estévez, Fidel Fernández Rubio, Diego Sánchez Miyares and Mario Sarsa. This first dataset here published comprises 4,172 specimens of the family Zygaenidae, mostly in the Palearctic region of the world; most of them collected in Spain and in Álava in particular.

Taxonomic Coverages

The taxonomic coverage is: Papilionoidea, Noctuoidea, Geometroidea, Bombycoidea, Zygaenoidea, Bombycoidea, Lasiocampoidea, Pyraloidea, Drepanoidea, Tortricoidea, Drepanoidea and, to a lesser extent, other superfamilies of Microlepidoptera.
  1. Lepidoptera
    rank: order
  2. Papilionoidea
    rank: superfamily
  3. Noctuoidea
    rank: superfamily
  4. Geometroidea
    rank: superfamily
  5. Bombycoidea
    rank: superfamily
  6. Zygaenoidea
    rank: superfamily
  7. Bombycoidea
    rank: infraorder
  8. Lasiocampoidea
    rank: superfamily
  9. Pyraloidea
    rank: superfamily
  10. Drepanoidea
    rank: superfamily
  11. Tortricoidea
    rank: superfamily
  12. Drepanoidea
    rank: superfamily
  13. Microlepidoptera
    rank: informal

Geographic Coverages

The geographical coverage of the collection includes the whole world, in particular Spain and Equatorial Guinea.

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Ibón de Olano
originator
position: Departamento Invertebrados
Museo de Ciencias naturales de Álava / Arabako Natur Zientzien Museoa
Siervas de Jesús 24
Vitoria-Gasteiz
E-01001
Álava / Araba
ES
Telephone: +34945181924
email: ideolano@externos.araba.eus
homepage: https://naturazientzienmuseoa.eus/es/
Marta Infante Sánchez
originator
position: Departamento Botánica
Museo de Ciencias naturales de Álava / Arabako Natur Zientzien Museoa
Siervas de Jesús 24
Vitoria-Gasteiz
E-01001
Álava / Araba
ES
Telephone: +34945181924
email: bazzania.vit@gmail.com
homepage: https://naturazientzienmuseoa.eus/es/
Ibón de Olano
metadata author
position: Departamento Invertebrados
Museo de Ciencias naturales de Álava / Arabako Natur Zientzien Museoa
Siervas de Jesús 24
Vitoria-Gasteiz
E-01001
Álava / Araba
ES
Telephone: +34945181924
email: ideolano@externos.araba.eus
homepage: https://naturazientzienmuseoa.eus/es/
Marta Infante Sánchez
metadata author
position: Departamento Botánica
Museo de Ciencias naturales de Álava / Arabako Natur Zientzien Museoa
Siervas de Jesús 24
Vitoria-Gasteiz
E-01001
Álava / Araba
ES
Telephone: +34945181924
email: bazzania.vit@gmail.com
homepage: https://naturazientzienmuseoa.eus/es/
Jesús Alonso Ramírez
custodian steward
position: Técnico responsable
Museo de Ciencias naturales de Álava / Arabako Natur Zientzien Museoa
Siervas de Jesús 24
Vitoria-Gasteiz
E-01001
Álava / Araba
ES
Telephone: +34945181924
email: jalonso@araba.eus
homepage: https://naturazientzienmuseoa.eus/es/
Ibon de Olano
administrative point of contact
position: Departamento Invertebrados
Museo de Ciencias naturales de Álava / Arabako Natur Zientzien Museoa
Siervas de Jesús 24
Vitoria-Gasteiz
E-01001
Álava / Araba
ES
Telephone: +34945181924
email: ideolano@externos.araba.eus
homepage: https://naturazientzienmuseoa.eus/es/
Marta Infante Sánchez
administrative point of contact
position: Departamento Botánica
Museo de Ciencias naturales de Álava / Arabako Natur Zientzien Museoa
Siervas de Jesús 24
Vitoria-Gasteiz
E-01001
Álava / Araba
ES
Telephone: +34945181924
email: bazzania.vit@gmail.com
homepage: https://naturazientzienmuseoa.eus/es/
Jesús Alonso Ramírez
administrative point of contact
position: Técnico responsable
Museo de Ciencias naturales de Álava / Arabako Natur Zientzien Museoa
Siervas de Jesús 24
Vitoria-Gasteiz
E-01001
Álava / Araba
ES
Telephone: +34945181924
email: mcna@araba.eus
homepage: https://naturazientzienmuseoa.eus/es/
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