DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18764503
title: TaxoDros - The Database on Taxonomy of Drosophilidae hash://md5/47cc02b56e5d21384e01ba0b7d3c170d hash://sha256/612ecde6ac7582b643a56b6ca5648c92cb122fcdf99e68c4bb0f64e9c56b5c76

description:  

This repository contains the TaxoDros source data for Taxodros: The database on Taxonomy of Drosophilidae as provided by Gerhard Bächli, the database maintainer, in Jan 2026.

TaxoDros forms the basis of the Zenodo TaxoDros Community. See also https://zenodo.org/communities/taxodros/about .



Index Files





filename
description (click for details)
signature




ALLORTE.TEXT
location information
hash://md5/9f31fe295591c47b7d82e9871fa0db85


ASHBURN.TEXT
journal names
hash://md5/225fa584ea602b27de1bcf9ac7edcf68


DROS3.TEXT
reference descriptors
hash://md5/970b1b143428d675aa38710682be7772


DROS5.TEXT
reference details
hash://md5/3b890c93ae2093ccaa5f5c3395494deb


KEYWORDS.TEXT
descriptors and country names
hash://md5/a115d0559dfd3ea75b758fee71246775


README.md
this file (mostly)
 


SPECIES-LIST_GE_SG
all Drosophilid-epithets (species, infra-specific names, such as “melanogaster”), including the respective genus and subgenus name
hash://md5/be40d900cf2651cb84e0c1efeca04078


SPECIES-LIST_GR_SR
(species-)groups and subgroups
hash://md5/0a9ebec3f9e7232de32984968323b0c2


SPECIES-LIST_GR_SR_SC
(species-)group, subgroup and species-complex
hash://md5/f0f08d3680b7c2aedede94af3ae17b52


SYST.QE.TEXT
copy of the SYST.TEXT as a mere text-file without header
hash://md5/3fb637e9bb67a021a8dff8c06888fa0a


SYST.TEXT
all systematic relationships, including synonymy
hash://md5/4609142e8ed4994c673316c280e20af5


TAXA_LIST
all taxa (as abbreviation), for species with the currently accepted genus name, and the actual bibliographic reference
hash://md5/0ef01d88281c8a0adff9a974a2087338






PDF Files


TaxoDros keeps a library of associated pdfs. See pdf for more information.



History


Version 20240112: Added DOI to .K in DROS5.TEXT and SYST.QE.TEXT Version 20240926: Scheduled update of index files with new/updated pdfs. Version 20250120: Scheduled update of index files with new/updated pdfs.



Index File Details


Details based on description provided by Bächli in January 2024.

The TaxoDros Index includes 12 files. With the exception of SYST.TEXT all files are strict size-limited (72 Chars, some lines with continuations in DROS5.TEXT). The font used is Monaco, a fix-length font on Mac, which in a text editor makes the data looking (pseudo)tabellaric. The following information is important to understand the individual files.



ALLORTE.TEXT


This file includes all collection sites in alphabetical order, with geographic coordinates, first geographic longitude, then geographic latitude („-„ at the end means rather exact data) und die Swiss coordinates [This is used for Swiss Topo maps], followed by the (abbreviated) name of the country. The abbreviations are explained and expanded in KEYWORDS.TEXT and used in Taxodros online.



ASHBURN.TEXT


This text-file containes the names of the journals: *s = abbreviation of names used in DROS5.TEXT *u = full (formal) names of journals



DROS3.TEXT


This text-file includes the descriptors (keywords) used for each source. Each segment has two tags: .TEXT; and .DESC;. The tag .TEXT; includes first the source identification and may be followed by collecting localities (each beginning with =e=…). The tag .DESC; is followed by the “short name” of the taxon (always in first place) followed by the descriptors (key words), The keywords used are explained in KEYWORDS.TEXT. With the exception of the tags, all the following lines are in lower case. Addional “short names” can follow in each segment, in case that the keywords also apply. The keyword “descr” is also used in connection with the keywords fig, egg, larv, pup. Multiple segments are used for each source, when needed.

Example (copy of two segments in DROS3.TEXT:



.TEXT;	tag
acurio et al., 2013	(source identification)
=e=san jose beach	(collection site)
.DESC;	tag
machalilla	(“short name”)
descr		keyword, followed by additional 
			descriptors)
fig		
malex
malin
femex
femin
typemat
typeloc
loc
distr$
Ecuador	country of collections site
comp
affil
taxon
phyl
egg
pup
biol
.TEXT;	tag
acurio et al., 2013	(source information)
.DESC;	tag
atalaia-gr	(“short name“)
descr	(keyword)
taxaincl	(keyword)
affil	(keyword)
taxon	(keyword)
phyl	(keyword)


 




DROS5.TEXT


This text-file contains segments with the bibliographic details for each source of information. Each segment begins with the tag .TEXT; strictly followed by the following tags: .A , .J , .S , .Z or .Z., .K , .P . All tags are fix length (max. 72 chars), excepting the tags .A and .S which may have consecutive lines without new tags.

The following is important:



There is only one segment for each source of information.

Excepting the source identification (in lowercase), all tags may contain text with the usual capitalization.

The lines “source identification” in DROS3.TEXT and DROS5.TEXT are in exact match, connecting the two files.


Explanation of the tags used within each segment:



.TEXT;	Segment delimiter
.A 		source identification
.J 		year of publication
.S 		title
.Z		Journal name (abbreviated), volume(issue):first 
		page-last page
		or
.Z.		for Books: editor etc.
.K 		comments: library codes, pdf quality, DOI
.P 		name of respective pdf, if available


 


Example: (copy of segment in DROS5.TEXT)



.TEXT;
acurio et al., 2013
.A Acurio, A., Rafael, V., Cespedes, D., and Ruiz, A.,
.J 2013
.S Description of a New Spotted Wing Drosophila
(Diptera: Drosophilidae) Species and Its Evolutionary
Relationships Inferred by a Cladistic Analysis of
Morphological Traits.
.Z Ann. ent. Soc. Am., 106:1-11.
.K ocr++ / DOI:10.1603.AN13028
.P Acurio et al., 2013


 




KEYWORDS.TEXT


This text-file includes the descriptors (keywords) used in DROS3.TEXT and the (abbreviated) names of countries used in ALLORTE.TEXT and DROS5.TEXT, all used in online TAXODROS.



SPECIES-List_GE_SG


In this text-file, all taxon names (short names, epithets) are listed with their affiliation to genus and subgenus.



SPECIES-List_GR_SG


In this text-file, all taxon names (short names, epithets) are listed with their affiliation to genus, subgenus, specie-groups and specie-subgroups.



SPECIES-List_GR_SR_SC


In this text-file, all taxon names (short names, epithets) are listed with their affiliation to genus, subgenus, species-group, species-subgroup and species-complex.



SYST.TEXT


This is a XLS-file in text/tab format. It includes all systematic relationships, including comments on synonymy and homonymy, etc., with tags for sorting. Some tags:



.KF 	“short name“, used in DROS3.TEXT (e.g., atterima) 
        So called homonyms are separated by nummers and 
        uniquely identified (e.g., attenuata 1).
.VN 	the currently accepted name (taxonomy). (e.g., aterrima)
.FU 	the original form of the name, with author(s), etc.,. (e.g., atterima Patterson and Wheeler, 1949:218)
.OR 	the original generic affiliation of the name (e.g., Drosophila)
.AU 	the original source to link with DROS5.TEXT (e.g., patterson & wheeler, 1949)

.FA 	family (e.g., Drosophilidae)
.SF     subfamily (e.g., Drosophilinae)
.TR     tribe (e.g., Drosophilini)
.ST     subtribe (e.g., Drosophilina)
.IT     infratribe (e.g., Drosophiliti)
.GE     genus (e.g., Scaptomyza)
.SG     subgenus (e.g., Macroscaptomyza)
.GR     species group (e.g., mesophragmatica)
.SR     species subgroup (e.g., mesophragmatica)
.SC     species complex (e.g., altissima)
.SS     subspecies (e.g., avittata)

.CO     any comments (status, etc.) 


 




SYST.QE.TEXT


This is a text-file, actually an exact copy of the file SYST.TEXT without connection with xls.



TAXA-LIST


This text-file lists all “short names” with actual genus affiliation and author(s) combination.



TAXODROS


The link https://www.taxodros.uzh.ch allows search with keywords, search for distribution and contains lists for taxonomic overviews.



References




Elliott2020


Elliott M.J., Poelen J.H., Fortes J.A.B. (2020). Toward Reliable Biodiversity Dataset References. Ecological Informatics. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2020.101132 hash://sha256/136c3c1808bcf463bb04b11622bb2e7b5fba28f5be1fc258c5ea55b3b84f482c



Elliott2023


Elliott M.J., Poelen, J.H. & Fortes, J.A.B. (2023) Signing data citations enables data verification and citation persistence. Sci Data. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02230-y hash://sha256/f849c870565f608899f183ca261365dce9c9f1c5441b1c779e0db49df9c2a19d

 



 
description: Provenance


This section details the provenance of the TaxoDros index files and associated pdf files.



for humans


The TaxoDros index files and associated pdfs where provided by Gerhard Bächlin January 2024. Following, the index files and associated pdf files were packaged, signed, and versioned using Preston (Elliott et al. 2020, Elliott et al. 2023).

The TaxoDros index files (e.g., DROS5.TEXT, DROS3.TEXT) were versioned and packaged using a workflow outlined in the bin/package.sh script.

This versioning workflow has the following steps:



list all TaxoDros index files and their pdf file associates.

track (or version) these files using Preston

translating (or transforming) TaxoDros index files to line-json using the preston stream-taxodros command.

annotating the line-json with references to their associated pdf content (see e.g., bin/translate-terms.sh)

attempt to publish the resulting annotated records using the preston zenodo command (see e.g., https://github.com/bio-guoda/preston/releases/tag/0.8.2)


With steps 1-2, a TaxoDros version is created.

Following, Preston can be used to deposit the records, and their associated pdf files, in Zenodo.

This publication workflow continues after step 2.

If a new version of TaxoDros is needed, run bin/package.sh to create a TaxoDros corpus version.

Link, stream and deposit a versioned TaxoDros corpus into Zenodo by running bin/stream.sh using:



bin/stream.sh\
 | preston zenodo --endpoint https://sandbox.zenodo.org --access-token "[add token]"


 


In the package.sh and stream.sh workflow scripts, you'll find Preston comments alike: preston track for tracking an versioned the listed content in ls -1, preston taxodros-stream translates TaxoDros index files into line-json.



for machines


The information below is intended for machines to increase the machine readability of this publication.

preston head produced the provenance anchor of this version:



hash://sha256/0185b51272f3cd5ca6af34ee406564c3366211bed461650e28273cc7f27f6210


 


preston\
 history\
 --anchor hash://sha256/0185b51272f3cd5ca6af34ee406564c3366211bed461650e28273cc7f27f6210\
 --remote https://linker.bio,https://softwareheritage.org


 

yields



<hash://sha256/0185b51272f3cd5ca6af34ee406564c3366211bed461650e28273cc7f27f6210> <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#wasDerivedFrom> <hash://sha256/180cab17146ba1cde9edc58a712ed5d235629a40bb88b73ebfa59a041485c351> .
<hash://sha256/180cab17146ba1cde9edc58a712ed5d235629a40bb88b73ebfa59a041485c351> <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#wasDerivedFrom> <hash://sha256/a6e757007c04215cafa537c09a06a0e8a68be70cbc9c965c857c7a9058ceeb16> .
<hash://sha256/a6e757007c04215cafa537c09a06a0e8a68be70cbc9c965c857c7a9058ceeb16> <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#wasDerivedFrom> <hash://sha256/8de04aee9df5564648414dfe7d6a2fd147c26f211ceda439ccc79468aedae44a> .
<hash://sha256/8de04aee9df5564648414dfe7d6a2fd147c26f211ceda439ccc79468aedae44a> <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#wasDerivedFrom> <hash://sha256/ca86d74b318a334bddbc7c6a387a09530a083b8617718f5369ad548744c602d3> .
<hash://sha256/ca86d74b318a334bddbc7c6a387a09530a083b8617718f5369ad548744c602d3> <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#wasDerivedFrom> <hash://sha256/1953f4ef164ae47fb22a8ee8bba1d95fa17463a38432d4e48b9e9cf0f91dadcf> .
<hash://sha256/1953f4ef164ae47fb22a8ee8bba1d95fa17463a38432d4e48b9e9cf0f91dadcf> <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#wasDerivedFrom> <hash://sha256/8c9cb7b31a0a5aec41be569199e3c2aa5f38fff604204914a0cae0a6239e4769> .
<hash://sha256/8c9cb7b31a0a5aec41be569199e3c2aa5f38fff604204914a0cae0a6239e4769> <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#wasDerivedFrom> <hash://sha256/e05466f33c755f11bd1c2fa30eef2388bf24ff7989931bae1426daff0200af19> .
<hash://sha256/e05466f33c755f11bd1c2fa30eef2388bf24ff7989931bae1426daff0200af19> <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#wasDerivedFrom> <hash://sha256/dc11cb282d103aa4541c8b406502ab5721bfc41edb662b7b44ef91a76b60dfb8> .
<hash://sha256/dc11cb282d103aa4541c8b406502ab5721bfc41edb662b7b44ef91a76b60dfb8> <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#wasDerivedFrom> <hash://sha256/3e41eec4c91598b8a2de96e1d1ed47d271a7560eb6ef350a17bc67cc61255302> .
<hash://sha256/3e41eec4c91598b8a2de96e1d1ed47d271a7560eb6ef350a17bc67cc61255302> <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#wasDerivedFrom> <hash://sha256/ee72b70df451082289193cdd8ff420495b3a24d230880613f9adddc71380fee6> .
<urn:uuid:0659a54f-b713-4f86-a917-5be166a14110> <http://purl.org/pav/hasVersion> <hash://sha256/ee72b70df451082289193cdd8ff420495b3a24d230880613f9adddc71380fee6> .


 


Similarly, in md5 hash space:

preston head --algo md5 yielded:



hash://md5/c6ca8257965cccb206b90b022a9446e8


 


with



preston\
 history\
 --anchor hash://md5/c6ca8257965cccb206b90b022a9446e8\
 --remote https://linker.bio,https://zenodo.org\
 --algo md5


 


produced:



<hash://md5/c6ca8257965cccb206b90b022a9446e8> <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#wasDerivedFrom> <hash://md5/47cda0f604fec63aa3df1f9a21251481> .
<hash://md5/47cda0f604fec63aa3df1f9a21251481> <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#wasDerivedFrom> <hash://md5/b3ead19ea211a66e4f59a6842e097c7b> .
<hash://md5/b3ead19ea211a66e4f59a6842e097c7b> <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#wasDerivedFrom> <hash://md5/b2c36e8284ac51b7a65dfc97c0ef0f74> .
<hash://md5/b2c36e8284ac51b7a65dfc97c0ef0f74> <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#wasDerivedFrom> <hash://md5/26a67012dde325cf2a3a058cc2f9c1b8> .
<hash://md5/26a67012dde325cf2a3a058cc2f9c1b8> <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#wasDerivedFrom> <hash://md5/40c28eb355268787eca4eba676a6fdf6> .
<hash://md5/40c28eb355268787eca4eba676a6fdf6> <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#wasDerivedFrom> <hash://md5/3793ab3633d3e94a40d3ab442b6cff7d> .
<hash://md5/3793ab3633d3e94a40d3ab442b6cff7d> <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#wasDerivedFrom> <hash://md5/4fa9eeed1c8cff2490483a48c718df02> .
<hash://md5/4fa9eeed1c8cff2490483a48c718df02> <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#wasDerivedFrom> <hash://md5/b8c3a1e1acdfaf8e0bb3c69d220709d8> .
<hash://md5/b8c3a1e1acdfaf8e0bb3c69d220709d8> <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#wasDerivedFrom> <hash://md5/d68c923002c43271cee07ba172c67b0b> .
<hash://md5/d68c923002c43271cee07ba172c67b0b> <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#wasDerivedFrom> <hash://md5/1037a9c831005710dc9bf14ee9a2e053> .
<urn:uuid:0659a54f-b713-4f86-a917-5be166a14110> <http://purl.org/pav/hasVersion> <hash://md5/1037a9c831005710dc9bf14ee9a2e053> .