Description
Insect specimens collected mainly in the humid forest area of Cameroon using various trapping methods as light trap, bait traps, lure traps and incubation of infested plant material. This collection was setup in 2000 and comprises today more than 13500 mounted specimens.
Data Records
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 1,249 records.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
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How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Tindo, Maurice, Hanna Rachid, Fotso Kuaté A. Insect collection of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Cameroon Station.
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is IRAD Cameroun (Institut de Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement Cameroun). publicdomain
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: a719e79b-d9c6-435b-bade-01b8fff20dc1. IRAD Cameroun (Institut de Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement Cameroun) publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Cameroon.
Keywords
Insect; Cameroon; Occurrence; Specimen
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Geographic Coverage
Specimens mainly from humid forest zone of southern Cameroon but specimens from others ecosystem are included.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date | 1999-01-01 |
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| Start Date / End Date | 1999-01-01 / 2011-01-01 |
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Project Data
No Description available
| Title | IITA insect collection Digit |
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Sampling Methods
Running light traps section, bait traps, collect and incubated attacked plant parts,
| Study Extent | Specimens mainly from humid forest zone of southern Cameroon but specimens from others ecosystem are included. |
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Additional Metadata
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| Alternative Identifiers | IITACollection |
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| a719e79b-d9c6-435b-bade-01b8fff20dc1 | |
| http://lis-02.snv.jussieu.fr/ipt_cameroun/resource.do?r=iita_insect_collection |