Collezione entomologica miscellanea del Museo entomologico Filippo Silvestri | Miscellaneous Entomological Collection of the Filippo Silvestri Entomological Museum

Occurrence
Latest version published by Università degli Studi di Firenze, Sistema Museale di Ateneo on Dec 2, 2025 Università degli Studi di Firenze, Sistema Museale di Ateneo

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Description

This dataset includes a large portion of the Filippo Silvestri Entomological Museum collection housed at MUSA (Portici). It is presented here as a miscellaneous collection, as it is not well ordered and comprises both historical and recent specimens collected in various countries for different purposes.

Data Records

The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 98,861 records.

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Versions

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Di Natale S, Lori E, Fracassi E (2025). Collezione entomologica miscellanea del Museo entomologico Filippo Silvestri | Miscellaneous Entomological Collection of the Filippo Silvestri Entomological Museum. Version 1.0. Università degli Studi di Firenze, Sistema Museale di Ateneo. Occurrence dataset. https://ipt.ibbr.cnr.it/ipt/resource?r=musa_misc&v=1.0

Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Università degli Studi di Firenze, Sistema Museale di Ateneo. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 4ad0be7f-8caa-424f-b34e-2bb3e03a1caf.  Università degli Studi di Firenze, Sistema Museale di Ateneo publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by DiSSCo.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen

Contacts

Stefano Di Natale
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
  • Curator
Università degli Studi di Firenze, Sistema museale di Ateneo, Museo di Storia naturale, Collezioni di Botanica Filippo Parlatore
IT-50121 Firenze
IT
Elisabetta Lori
  • Originator
  • Curator
Università degli Studi di Firenze, Sistema museale di Ateneo, Museo di Storia naturale, Collezioni di Zoologia La Specola
  • Via Romana, 17
50125 Firenze
IT
Enrico Fracassi
  • Originator
  • Curator
Università degli Studi di Firenze, Sistema museale di Ateneo, Museo di Storia naturale, Collezioni di Zoologia La Specola
  • Via Romana, 17
50125 Firenze
Toscana
IT
UNIFI-SMA Sistema Museale di Ateneo - Università di Firenze
Museo entomologico Filippo Silvestri, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
80055 Portici
Napoli
IT
Antonio Pietro Garonna
  • Curator
MUSA, Museo entomologico Filippo Silvestri, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
80055 Portici
Napoli
IT
Stefano Mazzoleni
MUSA, Museo entomologico Filippo Silvestri, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
80055 Portici
Napoli
IT

Geographic Coverage

Worldwide

Bounding Coordinates South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180]

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Order Coleoptera, Odonata, Diptera, Solifugae, Blattodea, Hempitera, Mantodea, Neuroptera, Hymenoptera, Hemiptera, Phasmidae, Dermaptera, Orthoptera, Isopoda, Lepidoptera, Aranea, Phasmatodea, Scorpiones

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 1850-01-01 / 2000-12-12

Project Data

ITINERIS is coordinated by the CNR (National Research Council). It started in November 2022, and during 30 (+6) months will carry out an ensemble of cross-disciplinary actions across the different environmental sub-domains, with the main aim to build the network of the Italian environmental Research Infrastructures, connect it to the user community and establish access, trough the ITINERIS HUB, to the vast array of knowledge, data, analytical tools, and service produced by the participating RIs.

Title ITINERIS - Italian Integrated Environmental Research Infrastructures System
Identifier CUP B53C22002150006
Funding EU – Next Generation EU PNRR - Mission 4 “Education and Research” – Component 2: “From research to business” – Investment 3.1: “Fund for the realisation of an integrated system of research and innovation infrastructures”.

The personnel involved in the project:

Stefano Di Natale
Elisabetta Lori
Lorenzo Cecchi
Enrico Fracassi
  • Content Provider
Gianna Innocenti

Collection Data

Collection Name Collezioni entomologiche del Museo entomologico Filippo Silvestri | Entomological collections of the Filippo Silvestri Entomological Museum
Collection Identifier https://registry.gbif.org/collection/adbb2e97-e559-4ff2-84de-71091f23dfee
Parent Collection Identifier https://registry.gbif.org/collection/7856d07e-2e9b-4b56-a524-c2e1b830e40a.
Specimen preservation methods Alcohol,  Dried,  Microscopic preparation,  Pinned

Additional Metadata

Acknowledgements We thank the National Recovery and Resilience Plan of Italian Ministry of University and Research funded by EU – Next Generation EU Mission 4 “Education and Research” – Component 2: “From research to business” – Investment 3.1: “Fund for the realisation of an integrated system of research and innovation infrastructures” – Project IR0000032 – ITINERIS – Italian Integrated Environmental Research Infrastructures System – CUP B53C22002150006. We would also like to thank all the staff of MUSA and the Department of Agricultural Sciences, in particular Director Stefano Mazzoleni and Professor Antonio Pietro Garonna, for their fundamental support throughout the entire digitization campaign.
Introduction This dataset includes a large portion of the Filippo Silvestri Entomological Museum collection housed at MUSA (Portici). It is presented here as a miscellaneous collection, as it is not well ordered and comprises both historical and recent specimens collected in various countries by multiple collectors for different purposes, including field sampling, educational use, and taxonomic studies.
Alternative Identifiers https://ipt.ibbr.cnr.it/ipt/resource?r=musa_misc