Abstract
A cybercatalog to the Apioceridae (apiocerid flies) of the Afrotropical Region is provided. Each taxon entry includes links to open-access, online repositories such as ZooBank, BHL/BioStor/BLR, Plazi, GBIF, Morphbank, EoL, and a research web-site to access taxonomic information, digitized literature, morphological descriptions, specimen occurrence data, and images. Cybercatalogs as the one presented here will need to become the future of taxonomic catalogs taking advantage of the growing number of online repositories, linked data, and be easily updatable. Comments on the deposition of the holotype of Apiocera braunsi Melander, 1907 are made.
Highlights
Cybertaxonomic tools enable us to utilize web-based databases and data repositories to store and retrieve information on taxon names, publications, digitized literature, morphological descriptions, molecular sequences, occurrence data, or images
The LSIDs (Life Science Identifier), Globally Unique Identifiers (GUID) (Globally Unique Identifier), UUIDs (Universally Unique Identifier), and URLs (Uniform Resource Locator) to access data in the various repositories listed below are locally stored in a custom FileMaker Pro database (Fig. 1)
Of the unique identifiers provided below, only the ZooBank and Plazi GUIDs, consisting of a 32 alpha-numeric UUID, are Globally Unique Identifiers (GUID) whereas all other identifiers are unique within their respective data storage system
Summary
Cybertaxonomic tools enable us to utilize web-based databases and data repositories to store and retrieve information on taxon names, publications, digitized literature, morphological descriptions, molecular sequences, occurrence data, or images. The present cybercatalog includes a novel feature available in the Biodiversity Data Journal (BDJ) publishing platform in that this catalog can be updated in the future and re-published under a new Digital Object Identifier (DOI) should a new species be described or other taxonomic changes be made. This feature will facilitate the continuous update of the taxonomic information not possible through traditional publishing means in book or article form
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