Atlas of Iberian water beetles (ESACIB database)

By

Sánchez-Fernández, David
Millán, Andrés
Abellán, Pedro
Picazo, Félix
Carbonell, José Antonio
Ribera, Ignacio

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2015

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

520

Pages

147-154

Subjects

aquatic , Coleoptera , freshwater , Iberian Peninsula , occurrence , Portugal , Spain

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.520.6048

 

Abstract

The ESACIB (‘EScarabajos ACuáticos IBéricos’) database is provided, including all available distributional data of Iberian and Balearic water beetles from the literature up to 2013, as well as from museum and private collections, PhD theses, and other unpublished sources. The database contains 62,015 records with associated geographic data (10×10 km UTM squares) for 488 species and subspecies of water beetles, 120 of them endemic to the Iberian Peninsula and eight to the Balearic Islands. This database was used for the elaboration of the “Atlas de los Coleópteros Acuáticos de España Peninsular”. In this dataset data of 15 additional species has been added: 11 that occur in the Balearic Islands or mainland Portugal but not in peninsular Spain and an other four with mainly terrestrial habits within the genus Helophorus (for taxonomic coherence). The complete dataset is provided in Darwin Core Archive format.