Occurrence data of horse flies housed at the natural history collection of the National Museums of Kenya.

Laban Njoroge; Josiah Achieng; Esther Wangui Mwangi

doi:10.15468/g9f5ky

Occurrence data of horse flies housed at the natural history collection of the National Museums of Kenya.

Citation

Njoroge L, Achieng J, Mwangi E W (2020). Occurrence data of horse flies housed at the natural history collection of the National Museums of Kenya.. Version 1.3. National Museums of Kenya. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/g9f5ky accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-12-15.

Description

Occurrence data of horse flies specimens at the natural history collection of the National museums of Kenya that comprises of both historical and current data. The taxonomic information is not up-to-date as the collection was not checked by an expert of the African species prior to publishing. Data was mined from the specimen labels into darwin core templates as provided by GBIF

Taxonomic Coverages

This is the complete occurrence data of historical records of Horse flies at the natural history collections of the National Museums of Kenya. The data comprises of only dried and pinned specimens.

Tabanidae
common name: Horse flies rank: family

Geographic Coverages

Spatial coverage is from Africa

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Laban Njoroge
originator
position: Research Scientist
National Museums of Kenya
Box 40658
Nairobi
00100
Nairobi
KE
email: lnjoroge@museums.or.ke
homepage: http://www.museums.or.ke

Josiah Achieng
originator
position: Data Entry Clerk
National Museums of Kenya
Box 40658
Nairobi
00100
Nairobi
KE

Esther Wangui Mwangi
originator
position: Research Scientist
National Museums of Kenya
Box 40658
Nairobi
00100
Nairobi
KE
email: ewmwangi@museums.or.ke
homepage: http://www.museums.or.ke

Laban Njoroge
metadata author
position: Research Scientist
National Museums of Kenya
Box 40658
Nairobi
00100
Nairobi
KE
email: lnjoroge@museums.or.ke
homepage: http://www.museums.or.ke

Lawrence Monda
processor
position: ICT & Node Manager
National Museums of Kenya
Box 40658
Nairobi
00100
Nairobi
KE
email: lmonda@museums.or.ke
homepage: http://www.museums.or.ke

Laban Njoroge
administrative point of contact
position: Research Scientist
National Museums of Kenya
Box 40658
Nairobi
00100
Nairobi
KE
email: lnjoroge@museums.or.ke
homepage: http://www.museums.or.ke