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The Hymenoptera collection (EY) of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN - Paris)

Specimen Records: 13,907
Media Records: 12,177
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-07-24

This dataset is the databased part of the Hymenoptera from the entomological collections of the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (Paris). The Hymenoptera collection holds about 1 million specimens, out of which 6000 are types (the oldest being from Fabricius and Latreille) ; 95 % are stored pinned, the other being either in alcool (mostly Formicidae), or in microscopical preparations. The collection consists of 9 sections: Apoidea apiformes (21 % of the specimens), Apoidea spheciformes (8 %), Vespoidea (22 %), Formicidae (10 %), Chrysidoidea (2 %), Ichneumonoidea (20 %), Chalcidoidea (6 %), others Parasitica (4 %) and Symphytes (7 %). The collection also includes 30 authors’ collections (notably those of Benoist, Berthoumieu, Bosc, Brullé, Dufour, Boyer de Fonscolombe, Ferton, de Gaulle, Giraud, Girault, Granger, Lepeletier, Lucas, Pérez, Pic, Saussure, Seyrig, Sichel, Vachal…). The main represented geographical area are the Palearctic and Afrotropic zones (especially Madagascar with Seyrig’s collection), and for some groups the Nearctic.

Contacts

Name MNHN
RoleProvider
Emailnone
Name Simon Chagnoux
Rolenone
Emailgbifprovider@mnhn.fr
Name Claire Villemant
Rolenone
Emailnone
Name Agnièle Touret-Alby
Rolenone
Emailnone
Name Quentin Rome
Rolenone
Emailnone
Name Franck Muller
Rolenone
Emailnone
Name Laurent Albenga
RoleCorrespondant
Emailnone
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.
FlagRecords With This Flag(%) Percent With This Flag
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i10783
77.536
dwc_datasetid_added  i6768
48.666
dwc_kingdom_added  i6768
48.666
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i6768
48.666
dwc_phylum_added  i6768
48.666
dwc_taxonid_added  i6768
48.666
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i6768
48.666
dwc_taxonrank_added  i6768
48.666
gbif_canonicalname_added  i6768
48.666
gbif_genericname_added  i6768
48.666
gbif_taxon_corrected  i6768
48.666
geopoint_datum_missing  i6400
46.02
geopoint_low_precision  i5127
36.866
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i4799
34.508
dwc_specificepithet_added  i3994
28.719
gbif_vernacularname_added  i3096
22.262
gbif_reference_added  i2674
19.228
dwc_multimedia_added  i2636
18.954
dwc_continent_replaced  i2005
14.417
taxon_match_failed  i1984
14.266
dwc_continent_added  i1018
7.32
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i888
6.385
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i540
3.883
dwc_family_replaced  i345
2.481
dwc_genus_replaced  i129
0.928
dwc_class_added  i111
0.798
dwc_family_added  i60
0.431
dwc_country_replaced  i57
0.41
geopoint_pre_flip  i57
0.41
dwc_order_added  i30
0.216
dwc_order_replaced  i27
0.194
dwc_genus_added  i25
0.18
rev_geocode_mismatch  i18
0.129
datecollected_bounds  i14
0.101
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i14
0.101
rev_geocode_eez  i10
0.072
rev_geocode_failure  i6
0.043
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i4
0.029
rev_geocode_corrected  i1
0.007
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i1
0.007