Malagasy Scoliidae recorded by PREP as flower visitors

Jaona Ranaivo1, Lars Anders Nilsson2, Borge Pettersson3, Jaona Ranaivo4, Borge Pettersson5, Lars Jonsson3, Elisabeth Rabakonandrianina6, Jean Jacques Randriamanindry7, Rotaharivelo Razananaivo8, Eugénie Rasoanandrasana9

1 CNRE, Po Box 1739 Antananarivo, 101, Antananarivo, Madagascar; 2 Department of Systematic Botany - Uppsala University, Museum of Evolution, EBC, Uppsala University, Norbyvagen 16, SE-752 36 Uppsala, SWEDEN, SE-752 36, Uppsala, Sweden; 3 Department of Systematic Botany - Uppsala University, SE-752 36, Uppsala, Sweden; 4 CNRE, Po Box 1739 Antananarivo, 101, Antananarivo, Madagascar; 5 Department of Systematic Botany - Uppsala University, Antananarivo, Sweden; 6 Department of Plant Biology and Biochemistry - Faculty of Science - Antananarivo university, 101, ; 7 Department of Plant Biology and Biochemistry, 101, 101, Antananarivo, Madagascar; 8 Département de Biologie et EcologieVégétale - Faculté des Science - Université d'Antananarivos, , Madagascar; 9 Département de Biologie et EcologieVégétale - Faculté des Science - Université d'Antananarivos, 101, , Madagascar

Corresponding author(s): Jaona Ranaivo (ranaivo_jaona@yahoo.fr)Lars Anders Nilsson (anders.nilsson@ebc.uu.se)Borge Pettersson

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Abstract

"Malagasy Scoliidae recorded by PREP as flower visitors" reports the Scoliidae specimens recorded and collected by members of the project team and kept at the Museum of Evolution - EBC - Uppsala University but reported here as observation data. Duplicates of these specimens are deposited at the PBZT - Antananarivo. The data was digitized By B. Pettersson. There where verbatimCoordinates is provided the geographic location was directly acquired with a GPS, there where, otherwise, the coordinates were inferred from google map (googlemap) or google map and of aquaitance of the area (Google+). The data set contain 164 records grouped into 18 species belonging to ten (10) genera and 18 species.
PREP stands for Plant Reproductive Ecology Project and was a joint project between a Swedish team from the Department of Systematic Botany - Uppsala University and a Malagasy team from the Department of Plant Biology and Ecology (DBEV) - Faculty of Science - Antananarivo University and the National Centre for Environmental Research (CNRE). This project was aiming to documenting Malagasy plants and pollinators relationship. 

Keywords: Occurrence; metadata, Observation

Project details

Project title: Plant Reproductive Ecology Project
Personnel: Lars Anders  Nilsson, Elisabeth RABAKONANDRIANINA, Borge Pettersson, Jean Jacques Randriamanindry, Lars Jonsson, Emile Randrianjohany, Herizo Randriambanona
Funding: The project was mainly funded by the Swedish Natural Science Research Council from 1983 to 1989
Study area descriptions/descriptor: The project was carried out in many regions of Madagascar from 1983 to 1989. 
Design description: PREP was aimed at shedding light to Malagasy plants anthecology: phenology, anthesis, breeding systems, pollens transfer mecanisms, flower visitors diversity; careful observations of these organisms were carried out in order to assessing their efficiency as pollinators. All flower visitors (mammals, birds, insects) were recorded but only insects were sampled. One part of insects pinned specimens is deposited at the Museum of Evolution - EBC - Uppsala (the numbers here recorded) and duplicates are kept at the insects repository of PBZT, Tsimbazaza - Antananarivo. Where needed, species specimens were sent for identification/description.

Data published through GBIF: https://ipt.madbif.mg/resource?r=malagasy_scoliids_by_prep

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: This resource is about Scoliidae specimens collected on flowers by PREP between 1983 and 1989. This family is poorly known and, so far, the most complete description is that of G. Schulten and A. Pauly (Schulten G. & Pauly A., in prep. Scoliidae de Madagascar.) which web page (http://www.atlashymenoptera.net/old/page.aspx?id=115) is under construction. Ten (10) genera split into 18 species were observed.
Taxonomic ranks
Family: Scoliidae
Genus: Campsomeriella, Enigmatimeris, Hitfoidra, Insulascolia, Liacos, Lobhargita, Madacampsomeris, Madascolia, Stiboranna, Vadonmeris
Common names: Scoolids

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: The PREP carried out in Madagascar, mainly the regions of Analamanga, Alaotra Mangoro, Antsinanana, Itasy, Vakinankaratra, Vatovavy, Fitovinany and Menabe. We used as stateProvince the new administrative division (region)
Coordinates: 25°45'37.15''S and 11°54'37.27''S Latitude; 42°58'42.66''E and 50°34'51.8''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: January 1, 1983 - December 31, 1989

Methods

Method step description: Visitors behaviour were carefully observed to assessing their efficiency as pollinators (do they effectively touch the stigma, do they move between plants,...). Specimens were collected, pinned and stored in insects boxes. Some specimens were sent to specialists for further identification if needed. The visited plants are recorded as welll.
Study extent description: The sensus was carried out in different regions of Madagascar and all taxa of the flower visitors observed throughout the anthesis. Insects specimens were collected for further identification and/or morphological study.
Sampling description: Every flower visitors observed during the anthesis were recorded and insect samples were caught with insect net. One part of the caught was conserved at the Museum of Evolution - EBC - Uppsala University and duplicates were left at the insects repository of PBZT
Quality control description: The Scoliidae family of Madagascar is poorly known and, anyway, Catalogue of life includes only two monophiletic genera so far. Our specimens were kindly identified by Schulten G. and Pauly A. who are, so far, the taxonomic authority for the family in Madagascar (http://www.atlashymenoptera.net/page.aspx?id=115). Two (02) specimens of the Swedish collections served respectively as holotype for Madascolia nilsoni and for Insulascolia angavokelyae and four (4) as paratype for the first species.

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Malagasy Scoliidae recorded by PREP as flower visitors
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://ipt.madbif.mg/archive.do?r=malagasy_scoliids_by_prep
Publication date of data: 2023-09-05
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2023-09-05
Hierarchy level: Dataset

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