The Araneae collection (AR) of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN - Paris)

Specimen Records: 4,247

Media Records: 1,497

iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-07-24

This dataset is the databased part of the Araneae from the terrestrial arthopods collections of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (Paris). The spider collection of the Museum is amongst the most important in the world (along with those of London and New York). The specimens come from around the world. They are mainly preserved in 75% alcohol in glass jars with some preparations on microscope slides. All specimens whether or not the types are located in two places: a large general reserve of the Museum, the zoothÃ¨que, and a smaller reserve in a research building. About 26,000 species of spiders, some 12,000 types (mixed in the entire collection) are represented in the Museum. This represents a number of individuals estimated to be approximately 2 million. Started in the 1860s by EugÃ¨ne SIMON, the collection has grown significantly over the years with substantial collections in number of specimens (including a large part of the material remaining to be studied and identified) from other arachnologists or naturalists, among them Bonnet, Denis, Dresco Legendre or Strand ... This collection has a predominantly scientific vocation. It grows with some specimens to several hundred per year with donations mainly from current collections. The main domains of research activity related to this collection are systematic, with two major axes, taxonomy and biosystematics, but also applications in the management of biodiversity and the environment as well as expertise. The loan service of the collection is of great importance each year along with hosting of visitors and sending material. Databasing began in the 2000s. Are currently integrated into the general database of the Museum some 3,000 lots spiders. The sources of information related to this collection are also based on manual files easily available to visitors and on a library with historical reference books as well as most recent reprints.

Contacts

Name	MNHN
Role	Provider
Email	none

Name	Simon Chagnoux
Role	none
Email	gbifprovider@mnhn.fr

Name	Christine Rollard
Role	none
Email	none

Name	Élise-Anne Leguin
Role	none
Email	none

Name	Laurent Albenga
Role	Correspondant
Email	none

Data Corrected
Data Use
Raw

This table shows any data corrections that were performed on this recordset to improve the capabilities of iDigBio Search. The first column represents the correction performed. The last two columns represent the number and percentage of records that were corrected. A complete list of the data quality flags and their descriptions can be found here. Clicking on a data flag name will take you to a search for all records with this flag in this recordset.

Flag	Records With This Flag	(%) Percent With This Flag
dwc_datasetid_added i	2523	59.407
dwc_kingdom_added i	2523	59.407
dwc_parentnameusageid_added i	2523	59.407
dwc_phylum_added i	2523	59.407
dwc_taxonid_added i	2523	59.407
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added i	2523	59.407
dwc_taxonrank_added i	2523	59.407
gbif_canonicalname_added i	2523	59.407
gbif_genericname_added i	2523	59.407
gbif_taxon_corrected i	2523	59.407
dwc_specificepithet_added i	2000	47.092
idigbio_isocountrycode_added i	1825	42.972
gbif_reference_added i	1683	39.628
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced i	1618	38.097
dwc_multimedia_added i	866	20.391
dwc_continent_replaced i	742	17.471
dwc_originalnameusageid_added i	625	14.716
gbif_vernacularname_added i	604	14.222
geopoint_datum_missing i	529	12.456
taxon_match_failed i	454	10.69
dwc_country_replaced i	90	2.119
geopoint_low_precision i	84	1.978
dwc_genus_replaced i	60	1.413
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added i	54	1.271
dwc_continent_added i	45	1.06
dwc_family_replaced i	39	0.918
rev_geocode_eez i	32	0.753
rev_geocode_mismatch i	25	0.589
rev_geocode_corrected i	22	0.518
rev_geocode_lon_sign i	22	0.518
dwc_class_replaced i	10	0.235
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added i	10	0.235
dwc_order_replaced i	10	0.235
dwc_taxonremarks_added i	4	0.094
dwc_stateprovince_replaced i	2	0.047
geopoint_bounds i	2	0.047
rev_geocode_failure i	1	0.024

Month of	Search	Download	Seen	Records Viewed	Media Viewed
04 / 2023	59,123,532	3,945	41	0	0
05 / 2023	48,048,168	1,253	15	0	0
06 / 2023	49,806,175	3,907	26	0	0
07 / 2023	47,975,735	15,658	11	0	0
08 / 2023	45,397,233	1	10	0	0
09 / 2023	57,292,780	8,066	18	0	0
10 / 2023	73,727,088	118,715	27	0	0
11 / 2023	65,710,419	13,472	62	0	0
12 / 2023	54,148,330	0	658	0	0
01 / 2024	89,917,890	68	38	0	0
02 / 2024	127,617,117	32,882	94	0	0
03 / 2024	135,414,726	569,363	111	0	0
04 / 2024	176,394,497	41,091	48	0	0
05 / 2024	742,383,010	406,723	991	1	0
06 / 2024	277,566,900	37,378	220	0	0
07 / 2024	158,279,931	97,029	252	1	1
08 / 2024	774,188,103	143,757	534	17	15
09 / 2024	322,245,672	8,171	689	12	11
10 / 2024	217,598,713	78,494	351	6	3
11 / 2024	275,759,926	925	476	5	5
12 / 2024	96,321,715	0	320	0	0
01 / 2025	236,294,783	521	303	48	40
02 / 2025	113,208,597	12	79	86	83
03 / 2025	107,316,098	34,004	187	50	46
04 / 2025	89,381,337	33	99	16	13
05 / 2025	102,111,368	0	74	40	31
06 / 2025	63,325,719	0	15	39	34
07 / 2025	13,581,191	0	4	0	0
08 / 2025	222,871,066	433	93	11	11
09 / 2025	101,284,033	0	86	15	12
10 / 2025	1,062,294,001	17,148	1,720	4	4
11 / 2025	939,148,385	219	7,015	258	180
12 / 2025	935,263,692	463	1,083	94	78
01 / 2026	327,924,176	461	1,307	144	99
02 / 2026	482,484,967	176	822	218	52
03 / 2026	514,089,173	17,035	3,108	425	56
04 / 2026	74,255,986	16,860	825	66	31

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Recordset

The Araneae collection (AR) of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN - Paris)

Contacts