The data of the Swedish Malaise Trap Project, a countrywide inventory of Sweden's insect fauna
Despite Sweden's strong entomological tradition, large portions of its insect fauna remain poorly known. As part of the Swedish Taxonomy Initiative, launched in 2002 to document all multi-cellular species occurring in the country, the first taxonomically-broad inventory of the country's in...
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| description | Despite Sweden's strong entomological tradition, large portions of its insect fauna remain poorly known. As part of the Swedish Taxonomy Initiative, launched in 2002 to document all multi-cellular species occurring in the country, the first taxonomically-broad inventory of the country's insect fauna was initiated, the Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP). In total, 73 Malaise traps were deployed at 55 localities representing a wide range of habitats across the country. Most traps were run continuously from 2003 to 2006 or for a substantial part of that time period. The total catch is estimated to contain 20 million insects, distributed over 1,919 samples (Karlsson et al. 2020). The samples have been sorted into more than 300 taxonomic units, which are made available for expert identification. Thus far, more than 100 taxonomists have been involved in identifying the sorted material, recording the presence of 4,000 species. One third of these had not been recorded from Sweden before and 700 have tentatively been identified as new to science.Here, we describe the SMTP dataset, published through the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). Data on the sorted material are available in the "SMTP Collection Inventory" dataset. It currently includes more than 130,000 records of taxonomically-sorted samples. Data on the identified material are published using the Darwin Core standard for sample-based data. That information is divided up into group-specific datasets, as the sample set processed for each group is different and in most cases non-overlapping. The current data are divided into 79 taxonomic datasets, largely corresponding to taxonomic sorting fractions. The orders Diptera and Hymenoptera together comprise about 90% of the specimens in the material and these orders are mainly sorted to family or subfamily. The remaining insect taxa are mostly sorted to the order level. In total, the 79 datasets currently available comprise around 165,000 specimens, that is, about 1% of the total catch. However, the data are now accumulating rapidly and will be published continuously. The SMTP dataset is unique in that it contains a large proportion of data on previously poorly-known taxa in the Diptera and Hymenoptera. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c2152566e6284edb91a5639e0358a5202022-12-21T19:15:53ZengPensoft PublishersBiodiversity Data Journal1314-28282020-10-01812810.3897/BDJ.8.e5628656286The data of the Swedish Malaise Trap Project, a countrywide inventory of Sweden's insect faunaDave Karlsson0Mattias Forshage1Kevin Holston2Fredrik Ronquist3Station LinnéSwedish Museum of Natural HistorySwedish Museum of Natural HistorySwedish Museum of Natural HistoryDespite Sweden's strong entomological tradition, large portions of its insect fauna remain poorly known. As part of the Swedish Taxonomy Initiative, launched in 2002 to document all multi-cellular species occurring in the country, the first taxonomically-broad inventory of the country's insect fauna was initiated, the Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP). In total, 73 Malaise traps were deployed at 55 localities representing a wide range of habitats across the country. Most traps were run continuously from 2003 to 2006 or for a substantial part of that time period. The total catch is estimated to contain 20 million insects, distributed over 1,919 samples (Karlsson et al. 2020). The samples have been sorted into more than 300 taxonomic units, which are made available for expert identification. Thus far, more than 100 taxonomists have been involved in identifying the sorted material, recording the presence of 4,000 species. One third of these had not been recorded from Sweden before and 700 have tentatively been identified as new to science.Here, we describe the SMTP dataset, published through the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). Data on the sorted material are available in the "SMTP Collection Inventory" dataset. It currently includes more than 130,000 records of taxonomically-sorted samples. Data on the identified material are published using the Darwin Core standard for sample-based data. That information is divided up into group-specific datasets, as the sample set processed for each group is different and in most cases non-overlapping. The current data are divided into 79 taxonomic datasets, largely corresponding to taxonomic sorting fractions. The orders Diptera and Hymenoptera together comprise about 90% of the specimens in the material and these orders are mainly sorted to family or subfamily. The remaining insect taxa are mostly sorted to the order level. In total, the 79 datasets currently available comprise around 165,000 specimens, that is, about 1% of the total catch. However, the data are now accumulating rapidly and will be published continuously. The SMTP dataset is unique in that it contains a large proportion of data on previously poorly-known taxa in the Diptera and Hymenoptera.https://bdj.pensoft.net/article/56286/download/pdf/Malaise trapinsect faunainventorysurveyall |
| spellingShingle | Dave Karlsson Mattias Forshage Kevin Holston Fredrik Ronquist The data of the Swedish Malaise Trap Project, a countrywide inventory of Sweden's insect fauna Biodiversity Data Journal Malaise trap insect fauna inventory survey all |
| title | The data of the Swedish Malaise Trap Project, a countrywide inventory of Sweden's insect fauna |
| title_full | The data of the Swedish Malaise Trap Project, a countrywide inventory of Sweden's insect fauna |
| title_fullStr | The data of the Swedish Malaise Trap Project, a countrywide inventory of Sweden's insect fauna |
| title_full_unstemmed | The data of the Swedish Malaise Trap Project, a countrywide inventory of Sweden's insect fauna |
| title_short | The data of the Swedish Malaise Trap Project, a countrywide inventory of Sweden's insect fauna |
| title_sort | data of the swedish malaise trap project a countrywide inventory of sweden s insect fauna |
| topic | Malaise trap insect fauna inventory survey all |
| url | https://bdj.pensoft.net/article/56286/download/pdf/ |
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