Museo Nacional de Historia Natural “Prof. Eugenio de Jesús Marcano” - Colección de Arácnidos (MNHNSD-ARACH)

The Arachnids collection of the Museo Nacional de Historia Natural “Prof. Eugenio de Jesús Marcano” (MNHNSD-ARACH) houses more than 4 000 lots containing around 10 100 specimens; these specimens belong to 9 orders, 76 families, 234 genera and 334 species, of which 106 are endemics from Hispaniola Island. Of all registers, 68 % is identified at least to genera level, and around 3 400 have been digitized, with Araneae representing more than 75 %. Most of the records are from Hispaniola, specifically from Dominican Republic, dating from 1974 to present; however, the collection also contains a few specimens from other Caribbean countries which were received through donations. The arachnids’ orders represented in the collection are: Acari (not included in the dataset), Amblypygi, Araneae, Opiliones, Pseudoscorpiones, Schizomida, Scorpiones, Solifugae, and Thelyphonida; with Palpigradi being the only one not represented of those recorded from Hispaniola. The publication of these data (Acari is NOT included) will take place in two parts: a) an occurrence dataset of all non-spiders’ arachnids will be published before May 31st, 2022; b) an updated publication to include the spiders’ records will be made before May 15th, 2023. Publishing this collection (MNHNSD-ARACH) following the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) standards is part of the Biodiversity Information for Development (BID; project BID-CA2020-031-NAC), developed by GBIF Secretariat, and funded by the European Union. This collection is being managed as a Data snapshot of local collection database, at Symbiota Collections of Arthropods Network portal (SCAN), from Symbiota.

Contact: Gabriel de los Santos (g.delossantos@mnhn.gov.do)

Home Page: https://mnhn.gob.do/

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Data snapshot of local collection database

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

Digital Metadata: EML File

Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain)

Rights Holder: Museo Nacional de Historia Natural “Prof. Eugenio de Jesús Marcano”

• 810 occurrence
• 471 (58%) georeferenced
• 173 (21%) identified to species
• 27 families
• 37 genera
• 30 species
• 30 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)