The Menetries’ Tiger Moth Range and Ecology Database (1840s-2020)
dataset
posted on 2022-02-22, 12:28 authored by Ivan BolotovIvan Bolotov, Mikhail Y. Gofarov, Evgeny KoshkinEvgeny Koshkin, Vyacheslav Gorbach, Yuri Bakhaev, Oleg Berlov, Sergey Gordeev, Yulia S. Kolosova, Alexander V. Kondakov, Alexey Korshunov, Grigory Potapov, Sergey Sinev, Spiridon Sleptsov, Vitaly Spitsyn, Evgeny Strelnikov, Andrey Timchenko, Risto Haverinen, Kari Nupponen, Hannu SaarenmaaA complete description of the Menetries’ Tiger Moth Range and Ecology Database is presented as a Data Descriptor article:
Bolotov, I.N., Gofarov, M.Y., Koshkin, E.S., Gorbach, V.V., Bakhaev, Y.I., Berlov, O.E., Gordeev, S.Y., Kolosova, Y.S., Kondakov, A.V., Korshunov, A.V., Potapov, G.S., Sinev, S.Y., Sleptsov, S.S., Spitsyn, V.M., Strelnikov, E.G., Timchenko, A.V., Haverinen, R., Nupponen, K. & Saarenmaa, H. (2022) A nearly complete database on the records and ecology of the rarest boreal tiger moth from 1840s to 2020. Scientific Data 9:1230; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01230-8
This database presents nearly all available information on the extremely rare Menetries’ Tiger Moth Arctia menetriesii (Eversmann, 1846) (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Erebidae) collected since its original description in 1846. Totally, it contains geographic, environmental, and temporal information on 78 occurrences. The database is composed by four parts as follows:
(1) ArcMenDB_1840_2020.xlsx [database XLSX file].(2) ArcMenDB_Images.zip [ZIP archive with image files].
(3) ArcMenDB_RefList.pdf [supplementary PDF file with full reference list].
(4) ArcMenDB_Museum_ID.pdf [supplementary PDF file with information on public museums and private collections].
A supplementary image file with the logo of the database [ArcMenDB_LOGO.jpg] is also available.
