Version 02 : Some geographical coordinates were corrected, thanks to Estelle Dumas. New checked identifications were provided by Vincent Leclercq for Eucera and Anthophora specimens in MHNM. Data base main description : List of Apoidea (Hymenoptera) specimens from MHNAix: Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle d’Aix en Provence (Bouches-du-Rhône) MHNL: Musée des Confluences, Lyon (Rhône) MHNM: Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle de Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône) MDV: Muséum Départemental du Var, Toulon (Var) Format is Darwin core, in CSV format. Columns are separated by tabs. encoding is UTF-8. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 Licence. All work derived from the present study should cite it appropriately, including the Museum(s) where the material is held. Column label Column Description occurrenceID Individual identification: combination of Museum name, collection identification, box number and specimen number within each box. basisOfRecord The specific nature of the data record (i.e. PreservedSpecimen) eventDate Event date in the format YYYY-MM-DD Year Year of capture if known Month Month of capture if known Day Day of capture if known verbatimEventDate Date of capture, if known, in format DD/MM/YYYY. Missing data are indicated by ? scientificName Lowest taxonomic rank possible, usually the species name. If unknown the genus or family names may be given. Kingdom Kingdom (i.e. Animalia) Phylum Phylum (i.e. Arthropoda) Class Class (i.e. Insecta) Order Order (i.e. Hymenoptera) family Family name genus Genus name specificEpithet Species epithet of the scientificName sex Male (M), Female (F) or unknown (NA) taxonRank Taxonomic rank of the most specific name in the scientificName IdentifiedBy Name of the entomologist who identified the specimen, if indicated by the label dateIdentified Year of identification, if known identificationVerificationStatus Whether (coded 1) or not (coded 0) the identification was recently (since 2009) checked decimalLatitude Geographic latitude (in decimal degrees) of the location decimalLongitude Geographic longitude (in decimal degrees) of the location geodeticDatum coordinate system and set of reference points upon which the geographic coordinates are based (i.e. WGS 84) coordinateUncertaintyInMeters Uncertainty in coordinates. As the coordinates are usually whose of the locality of the record, uncertainty is in the range of 5000 m Country Country of capture, as indicated by the label countryCode Two letter country code of the specimen origin stateProvince French departmental administrative division. In the case of non French data, any relevant country administrative subdivision locality Location of capture, usually the locality verbatimLocality Any geographical indication on the label other than the locality InstitutionCode Museum where the specimen is held CatalogNumber Box identifier within each Museum occurrenceRemarks Any ecological data or comment on the label recordedBy Name of collector (i.e. legit information) OrganismQuantity Number of individuals bearing the same label (usually 1) OrganismQuantityType individuals previousIdentifications Species name originally given by the original collector, if different from scientificName georeferencesBy Identity of the person who added the Latitude and longitude data, i.e. mainly Meunier, Jean-Yves georeferenceProtocol How the georeference was computed, i.e. from label data (verbatimLocality) georeferenceSources The georeference code was inferred from geoportail.fr georeferencedDate The georeference work was performed in 2021, with a few corrections and additions in 2023. language The data set is mainly written in French, apart from column headings, which are in English CollectionCode Identifier of collection within each Institution where specimens are held locationRemarks Several localities could not be identified unambiguously, this is indicated by “localité incertaine” in this field Full details in Meunier J-Y, Geslin B, Issertes M, Mahé G, Vyghen F, Labrique H, Dutour Y, Poncet V, Migliore J, Nève G (2023) Apoidea of the collections of Lyon, Aix-en-Provence, Marseille and Toulon Museums of Natural History (France). Biodiversity Data Journal 11: e99650. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.11.e99650 Funding : This scientific work is part of the natural heritage inventory (inpn.mnhn.fr). In 2023, it received support from PatriNat (OFB- CNRS- MNHN).

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