DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18186186
title: Late summer records of Hoverflies (Diptera: Syrphidae) at the Mercantour National Park and its surroundings

description: Records of Syrphidae, collected as well as observed by participants of the 11th International Symposium on Syrphidae are presented. Many of these are of interest for phenology, as there are few September records known from France and Italy for many species. A total of 1372 Syrphidae specimens from 104 species were recorded in six French departments (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Alpes Maritimes, Isère, Bouches-du-Rhône, Hautes-Alpes and Savoie) and in the Cuneo Province, Italy.

Ten records are new departmental records for France, and three are new for Cuneo province, Italy.

Data in presented Darwin core: CSV format, UTF-8, compatibe with GBIF system. 

Beware of apostrophes (') in some locality names or comments, as these may be misinterpreted by R statistical system. 

‘1’ in the identificationVerificationStatus column indicates that the specimen could be identified at the specific level, and that its identification can be taken as sure. If there is any doubt, ‘cf’ is indicated in identificationQualiflier and ‘0’ is encoded in the identificationVerificationStatus column, and details are given in the identificationRemarks column.

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Some tips on how to open this file are given in the associated Read_me_Syrphidae_Barcelonnette_2022.pdf file.

The columns of the data set are :

occurrenceID: Individual identification code. basisOfRecord: The specific nature of the data record (i.e. either PreservedSpecimen for the entomological collections or Human observation for field data only)eventDate Event date of specimen capture or obervation in the format YYYY-MM-DD.year: Year of event.month: Month of event.day: day of eventverbatimEventDate: Date of capture, as mentioned on the label.kingdom: Kingdom name (i.e. Animalia).phylum: Phylum name (i.e. Arthropoda).class: Class name (i.e. Insecta).order: Class name (i.e. Diptera).family: Family name (i.e. Syrphidae)previousIdentifications: Species name originally given on the specimen label by Maurice Dauzet.genus: Genus name.specificEpithet: Species epithet of the scientificName.scientificName: Lowest taxonomic rank possible given to the specimen, usually the species name, sometimes the genus, with author and year.sex: Male (M) or female (F).taxonRank: species or genus.identificationQualifier: In case the identification could be given only to a species group, 'cf.' was input.identificationRemarks: Any comment on the identification of the specimen, with list of other possible species.IdentifiedBy: Name of the entomologist who identified the specimen.identificationVerificationStatus: Whether (coded 1) or not (coded 0) the identification is reliable to species levelcountry: Country of capture.countryCode: Two letter country code of the specimen capture location.stateProvince: French departmental or Italian Province administrative division.locality: Location of capture, usually the municipality.verbatimLocality: Any geographical indication, as it is written on the label or inthe notebook.decimalLatitude: Geographic latitude (in decimal degrees) of the capture location.decimalLongitude: Geographic longitude (in decimal degrees) of the capture location.coordinateUncertaintyInMeters: Uncertainty in coordinates, in meters (i.e. ca. 100 m).recordedBy: Name of collector (i.e. legit information)occurrenceRemarks: Any ecological dataminimumElevationInMeters: Lower limit of the range of altitudesmaximumElevationInMeters: Higher limit of the range of altitudesgeodeticDatum: System and set of reference points upon which the geographic coordinates are based (i.e. WGS84)georeferenceProtocol: How the georeference was computed, i.e. from field GPS label data.georeferencedDate : year of the georeference (i.e. 2022)CollectionCode: Name of the collector who kept the specimensorganismQuantity: Number of individuals in the recordorganismQuantityType: Individuals.language: The dataset is mainly written in French, apart from column headings, which are in English.associatedReferences: Any reference citing the relevant specimen