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The Diptera collection (ED) of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN - Paris)

Specimen Records: 10,697
Media Records: 28,164
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-05-23

This dataset is the databased part of the Diptera from the entomological collections of the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (Paris). The Diptera collection of MNHN is divided into a general collection, classified into families, and separate nominal collections. The heart of the collection is composed of two historical nominal collections: Meigen and Macquart, both dating from the nineteenth century; they contain about 5,000 holotypes. In total the collection contains 2.5 million specimens, 8000 holotypes and about 30,000 species or 20% of the described Diptera. All biogeographic regions are represented.

Contacts

Name MNHN
RoleProvider
Emailnone
Name Simon Chagnoux
Rolenone
Emailgbifprovider@mnhn.fr
Name Christophe Daugeron
Rolenone
Emailnone
Name Vincent Debat
Rolenone
Emailnone
Name Emmanuel Delfosse
Rolenone
Emailnone
Name Sébastien Verbecq
Rolenone
Emailnone
Name Laurent Albenga
RoleCorrespondant
Emailnone
  • 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.
FlagRecords With This Flag(%) Percent With This Flag
dwc_datasetid_added  i7665
71.656
dwc_kingdom_added  i7665
71.656
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i7665
71.656
dwc_phylum_added  i7665
71.656
dwc_taxonid_added  i7665
71.656
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i7665
71.656
dwc_taxonrank_added  i7665
71.656
gbif_canonicalname_added  i7665
71.656
gbif_genericname_added  i7665
71.656
gbif_taxon_corrected  i7665
71.656
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i5756
53.809
taxon_match_failed  i5620
52.538
dwc_specificepithet_added  i4584
42.853
dwc_multimedia_added  i4044
37.805
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i2511
23.474
gbif_vernacularname_added  i1534
14.34
gbif_reference_added  i1018
9.517
dwc_family_replaced  i786
7.348
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i719
6.722
geopoint_datum_missing  i326
3.048
dwc_continent_replaced  i281
2.627
dwc_genus_replaced  i263
2.459
geopoint_low_precision  i89
0.832
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i70
0.654
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i43
0.402
rev_geocode_eez  i30
0.28
dwc_family_added  i23
0.215
dwc_order_replaced  i23
0.215
dwc_class_added  i20
0.187
dwc_order_added  i20
0.187
dwc_class_replaced  i12
0.112
rev_geocode_failure  i5
0.047
dwc_country_replaced  i1
0.009
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i1
0.009
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