Medetera species with multi-coloured eyes in southern Europe

Marc Pollet1, Rui Andrade2, Ana Gonçalves3, Piluca Álvarez Fidalgo4, José Luis Camaño Portela4, Frédéric Belin5, Jonas Mortelmans6, Dimitri Brosens7, Andreas Stark8, Dimitri Brosens9

1 Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO), , Belgium; 2 , Portugal; 3 , Brazil; 4 , Spain; 5 , France; 6 , Belgium; 7 Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)/ Belgian Biodiversity Platform, , Belgium; 8 , Germany; 9 

Corresponding author(s): Marc Pollet (mpollet.doli@gmail.com)Rui Andrade (ruimandrade@yahoo.com)Ana GonçalvesPiluca Álvarez FidalgoJosé Luis Camaño PortelaFrédéric BelinJonas MortelmansDimitri BrosensAndreas Stark

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Abstract

This dataset hold the records of 7 new soil-dwelling Medetera species with multi-coloured eyes in southern Europe. The records are associated and extensively described in Pollet et al 2022 and all originate from the wider Mediterranean region in southern Europe, in particular from the Iberian Peninsula, Italy, southern France and Corsica.
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Keywords: Occurrence, Specimen, Mediterranean region, Iberian Peninsula, Italy, Corsica, eye pattern, phylogeny

Data published through GBIF: https://ipt.inbo.be/resource?r=medetera-occurrences

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: 7 New species of Medetera.
Taxonomic ranks
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Dolichopodidae
Species: Medetera aglaops Pollet, 2022, Medetera corsicana Pollet, 2022, Medetera gibbosipyga Pollet, 2022, Medetera hispanica Pollet, 2022, Medetera lusitana Pollet, 2022, Medetera parva Pollet, 2022, Medetera rectipyga Pollet, 2022

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: All records originate from the wider Mediterranean region in southern Europe, in particular from the Iberian Peninsula, Italy, southern France and Corsica.
Coordinates: 35°53'20.4''N and 45°12'46.8''N Latitude; 11°25'33.6''W and 10°43'22.8''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: September 24, 2004 - June 8, 2022

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Medetera species with multi-coloured eyes in southern Europe
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://ipt.inbo.be/archive.do?r=medetera-occurrences
Publication date of data: 2022-10-25
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2022-09-22
Hierarchy level: Dataset