Some notes on how to search locality records of Hymenoptera when evaluating candidate observations for inclusion in the New Bee and Wasp Locality Records.
Although my focus is New York state, where I make most of my observations, most of these are global in reach. I've noted those that aren't, e.g.: BugGuide.
GBIF: Search Occurrences by Taxon. Use Administrative areas to limit search to a state, or a set of counties. Examples:
** NYC (multi-county municipality) comprises has 5 boroughs, each of which is a NY state county: New York (Manhattan), Bronx, Kings (Brooklyn), Queens, and Richmond (Staten Island) counties. To limit the GBIF search to NYC, append the search url with &gadm_gid=USA.33.3_1&gadm_gid=USA.33.24_1&gadm_gid=USA.33.32_1&gadm_gid=USA.33.44_1&gadm_gid=USA.33.42_1
** Long Island (an island) comprises Kings, Queens, Nassau, and Suffolk counties: &gadm_gid=USA.33.24_1&gadm_gid=USA.33.42_1&gadm_gid=USA.33.53_1&gadm_gid=USA.33.31_1
These are helpful for confirming absence, or checking textual details, of records found in the general databases above.
https://emu-prod.amnh.org/imulive/iz.html
. Only use this when looking up specific records. It's extremely slow.https://mbd-db.osu.edu/
: Select Triplehorn Insect Collection, then search by Identified As. The Country and State search fields are disabled. State is displayed in the table, but you need to view each record by Unique ID to see the Date and Locality information.Taxon | Date | Locality |
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Ancistrocerus catskill | 2021-08-18 | NYC, Long Island? |
Cratichneumon unifasciatorius | 2020-08-15 | NYC, Long Island? |
Deinodryinus atriventis | 2020-07-17 | NYC, Long Island? |
Trypoxylon collinum | 2016-07-16 | NY, NYC, Long Island |
For those I thought might be records, but proved not to be.
Taxon | Date | Locality | Earliest Record? |
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Tremex columba, pigeon horntail | 2008-06-11 | NYC | GBIF, 1932, Staten Island |
2015-09-20 | NY, NYC, Long Island | Cannot be identified to spcies from this single photo |
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@bdagley I'll collect my notes on where and how to search in this Journal post.
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