McDonald-Podesta-Fortuin-Gandhi Orchid Bee Collection (GMNH-UGAEug)

This collection provides a list of orchid bees (Hymenoptera: Euglossini) compiled from field surveys conducted during January-October 2019 in the premontane wet forest of San Luis, Monteverde, Costa Rica. We collected 36 species of Euglossine bees across four genera. We provide new distribution data for nine species in two genera.

Contact: Kamal Gandhi (kgandhi@warnell.uga.edu)

Home Page: https://kjgandhi.wixsite.com/gandhi-lab

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal

Global Unique Identifier: 7f76a650-22f0-4f98-a6fa-5a071b27bbea

DwC-Archive Publishing: https://scan-bugs.org:443/portal/collections/datasets/datapublisher.php

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Digital Metadata: EML File

Usage Rights: CC BY-NC 4.0 (Attribution-Non-Commercial International)

Rights Holder: U of Georgia

• 2,742 occurrence
• 2,742 (100%) georeferenced
• 2,742 (100%) identified to species
• 1 families
• 4 genera
• 34 species
• 34 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)