Edible Insects Collection of the Natural History Museum Bulawayo (NMZB), Zimbabwe Occurrence dataset

Dorothy Madamba

doi:10.15468/99mily

Edible Insects Collection of the Natural History Museum Bulawayo (NMZB), Zimbabwe Occurrence dataset

Citation

Madamba D (2023). Edible Insects Collection of the Natural History Museum Bulawayo (NMZB), Zimbabwe Occurrence dataset. Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/99mily accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-12-02.

Description

Data on edible insect specimens available at the Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe, generated using the world catalogue of edible insects and other sources including personal communication. This was generated as part of a project to detect knowledge gaps in the data that is available in our Natural History Museum collection. Useable data were available for 40 of the edible insect species in Zimbabwe that have some representation in the collections of the Natural History Museum collection of Zimbabwe. Some taxa of edible insects lack representation in the collections.

Sampling Description

Method steps

Taxonomic Coverages

Identified to species level, a total of 52 species

species
common name: Edible insects

Geographic Coverages

All specimen records are from within Zimbabwe, in Southern Africa, coordinates 20DegS30DegE

Bibliographic Citations

VAN HUIS A., VAN ITTERBEECK, J., KLUNDER H., MERTENS E. HALLORAN A., MUIR G., (2013). Edible insects: Future prospects for food and feed security. FAO Forestry, Paper 171. -
CHAVUNDUKA D.M. 1975. Insects as a source of protein to the African. The Rhodesia Science news, 9(7),:p 217-220 -
DEFOLIART G.R. The Human Use of Insects as a Food Resource: A Bibliographic Account in Progress, Chapter 13, posted on website, July 2002, visited 2015 -

Contacts

Dorothy Madamba
originator
position: Curator of Entomology
National Museums and Monuments of Zimbabwe
P.O Box 240
Bulawayo
9999
Matabeleland
ZW
Telephone: +263292230046
email: madambadc@gmail.com
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5146-9007

Dorothy Madamba
metadata author
position: Curator of Entomology
National Museums and Monuments of Zimbabwe
P.O Box 240
Bulawayo
9999
Matabeleland
ZW
Telephone: +263292230046
email: madambadc@gmail.com
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5146-9007

Dorothy Madamba
author
position: Curator of Entomology
National Museums and Monuments of Zimbabwe
P.O Box 240
Bulawayo
9999
Telephone: +263292230046
email: madambadc@gmail.com
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5146-9007

Dorothy Madamba
administrative point of contact
position: Curator of Entomology
National Museums and Monuments of Zimbabwe
P.O Box 240
Bulawayo
9999
Matabeleland
ZW
Telephone: +263292230046
email: madambadc@gmail.com
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5146-9007