Abstract
The ESACIB (‘EScarabajos ACuáticos IBéricos’) database is provided, including all available distributional data of Iberian and Balearic water beetles from the literature up to 2013, as well as from museum and private collections, PhD theses, and other unpublished sources. The database contains 62,015 records with associated geographic data (10×10 km UTM squares) for 488 species and subspecies of water beetles, 120 of them endemic to the Iberian Peninsula and eight to the Balearic Islands. This database was used for the elaboration of the “Atlas de los Coleópteros Acuáticos de España Peninsular”. In this dataset data of 15 additional species has been added: 11 that occur in the Balearic Islands or mainland Portugal but not in peninsular Spain and an other four with mainly terrestrial habits within the genus Helophorus (for taxonomic coherence). The complete dataset is provided in Darwin Core Archive format.
Highlights
General description Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide all the available distributional information on water beetles from the Iberian Peninsula and Balearic Islands
The Iberian peninsula has a wide range of habitat types, including some aquatic environments very rare in Europe (Millán et al 2011)
General taxonomic coverage: We focus here exclusively on the “strictly aquatic beetles”, i.e., those that spend most of their life submerged, at least in its adult stage, in any type of aquatic ecosystem (Jäch and Balke 2008)
Summary
Academic editor: Pavel Stoev | Received 14 May 2015 | Accepted 26 August 2015 | Published 16 September 2015 http://zoobank.org/08758036-812A-4859-A1A8-B816827AB596
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