IITA Cameroon Insect Collection 2018

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 2,967 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, 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 International Institute of Tropical Agriculture. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: d469da6c-c56c-4332-ad91-3af0f2c6fbeb.  International Institute of Tropical Agriculture publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Cameroon.

Keywords

Occurrence; insect pest; invasive species;

Contacts

Geographic Coverage

Specimens mainly from humid forest zone of southern Cameroon but specimens from others ecosystem are included.

Taxonomic Coverage

the collecion includes insects belonging to Diptera, Orthoptera, Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera, Mantodea, Blatodea, Coleoptera,

Temporal Coverage

Project Data

This project is to mobilize biodiversity information embedded on specimens in three agricultural insect collections in Cameroon – (1) at the Institute of Agricultural Research for Development (IRAD), (2) at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and Congo Basin Institute (CBI) in Yaoundé, (3) newly established Insect collection at the University of Douala (UDL) and from associated literature to make it publicly available and help in the management of native and introduced pests in Cameroon.

The personnel involved in the project:

Sampling Methods

Running light traps section, bait traps, collect and incubated attacked plant parts,

Method step description:

1. Acquisition of insect collection material, establisment of the collection n 1999. Adding specimens in the collection from 1999 to 2011. Digitization of specimen in 2009, establishment of the data set

Collection Data

Additional Metadata