Occurrence

Entomology collections at the South Pacific Regional Herbarium and Biodiversity Centre

Latest version published by South Pacific Regional Herbarium on 21 August 2023 South Pacific Regional Herbarium
Publication date:
21 August 2023
License:
CC-BY-NC 4.0

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Description

Insect specimen collection records at the South Pacific Regional Herbarium (SPRH) and Biodiversity Centre are detailed in this dataset. Collections occurred during biodiversity surveys, protected area monitoring, research sampling, and biodiversity rapid assessments.

All specimens are curated and maintained at the SPRH and Biodiversity Centre at The University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji.

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 8,811 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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Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is South Pacific Regional Herbarium. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 5d289c3a-7552-44ec-8137-0721974bbf9a.  South Pacific Regional Herbarium publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by VertNet.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen

Contacts

Apaitia Liga
  • Metadata Provider
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
Forest Guard Park
Forest Resource Assessment and Conservation Unit
Ministry of Forestry
Suva
FJ
Tokasaya Cakacaka
  • Originator
Laboratory Attendant
South Pacific Regional Herbarium
The University of the South Pacific
Suva
FJ
Hilda Sakiti-Waqa
  • Originator
Lead researcher & Team Leader
Pacific Centre for Environment & Sustainable Development (PaCE-SD)
The University of the South Pacific
Suva
Kelly Brown
  • Publisher
Curator - USP Marine Collection
The University of the South Pacific
Suva
FJ

Geographic Coverage

All locations are from the islands of Fiji.

Bounding Coordinates South West [-19.891, 176.484], North East [-15.792, 180]

Taxonomic Coverage

This dataset contains specimen records from the Class Insecta, comprising the four Orders below.

Order Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera, Orthoptera

Project Data

The main objective of our project is to mobilize natural history collection data housed in both government and non-government institutions in Fiji. These include collections held at the South Pacific Regional Herbarium and the Discipline of Marine Studies, both located at the University of the South Pacific, and the Fijian Ministries of Forestry and Agriculture.

Title Mobilizing biodiversity data from natural history collections in Fiji
Identifier BID-PA2020-006-NAC
Funding Data mobilisation was supported by the BID Pacific project "Mobilizing biodiversity data from natural history collections in Fiji" (BID-PA-2020-006-NAC), and the British Academy funded Youth Futures project "(Re)Defining Culture: Engaging urban Fijian youth in sustainable employment opportunities in the cultural heritage sector (YF\190078).
Study Area Description The Fiji Islands
Design Description Data mobilisation was supported by the BID Pacific project "Mobilizing biodiversity data from natural history collections in Fiji" (BID-PA-2020-006-NAC)

The personnel involved in the project:

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 5d289c3a-7552-44ec-8137-0721974bbf9a
https://ipt.sprep.org/resource?r=suva_entomology