Occurrence data of Hover flies available at the National Museums of Kenya's Natural History collection, Invertebrates Zoology Section.
Citation
Njoroge L, Mwangi E W, Achieng J (2019). Occurrence data of Hover flies available at the National Museums of Kenya's Natural History collection, Invertebrates Zoology Section.. Version 1.2. National Museums of Kenya. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/2dcayw accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-08-24.Description
occurrence data of hover flies specimens at the natural history collection of the National museums of Kenya. This comprises of both historical and current data. The taxonomic information is up-to-date as the entire collection was checked by an expert of the African species prior to publishing. Data was mined from the specimen labels into excel spreadsheets as provided by GBIF, georeferenced using Geolocate and validated using GBIF Data ValidatorTaxonomic Coverages
This is the complete occurrence data of historical records of hover flies at the natural history collections of the National Museums of Kenya. The data comprises of only dried and pinned specimens
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Sryphidaecommon name: Hover flies rank: family
Geographic Coverages
The specimens are from different places in the African continent
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Laban Njorogeoriginator
position: Research Scientist
National Museums of Kenya
Box 40658
Nairobi
00100
Nairobi
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email: lnjoroge@museums.or.ke
homepage: http://www.museums.or.ke
Esther Wangui Mwangi
originator
position: Research Scientist
National Museums of Kenya
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Nairobi
00100
Nairobi
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email: ewmwangi@museums.or.ke
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Josiah Achieng
originator
position: Data Entry Clerk
National Museums of Kenya
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Nairobi
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Nairobi
KE
email: josiahachieng@gmail.com
Laban Njoroge
metadata author
position: Research Scientist
National Museums of Kenya
Box 40658
Nairobi
00100
Nairobi
KE
email: lnjoroge@museums.or.ke
homepage: http://www.museums.or.ke
Lawrence Monda
publisher
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National Museums of Kenya
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Nairobi
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Nairobi
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email: lmonda@museums.or.ke
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Laban Njoroge
administrative point of contact
position: Research Scientist
National Museums of Kenya
Box 40658
Nairobi
00100
Nairobi
KE
email: lnjoroge@museums.or.ke
homepage: http://www.museums.or.ke