Jean-Yves Meunier‡§|¶#, Benoît Geslin§¶|#‡, Mehdi Issertes¤, Gilles Mahé«, Frédéric Vyghen», Harold Labrique˄, Yves Dutour˅, Vincent Poncet¦, Jérémy Miglioreˀ, Gabriel NeveˁCorresponding author: Gabriel Neve ( gabriel.neve@imbe.fr ) © Jean-Yves Meunier, Benoît Geslin, Mehdi Issertes, Gilles Mahé, Frédéric Vyghen, Harold Labrique, Yves Dutour, Vincent Poncet, Jérémy Migliore, Gabriel Neve. This is an open access preprint distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Meunier J-Y, Geslin B, Issertes M, Mahé G, Vyghen F, Labrique H, Dutour Y, Poncet V, Migliore J, Neve G (2023) Apoidea of the collections of Lyon, Aix-en-Provence, Marseille and Toulon Museums of Natural History (France). ARPHA Preprints. https://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e99673 |  |
Many insect species have shown dramatic declines over the last decades, as a result of man-related environmental changes. Many species which were formerly widespread are now rare. To document this trend with evidence, old records of collected specimens are vital.
We provide here the data on 9752 bee (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) specimens hosted in several museums of south-east France: Musée des Confluences in Lyon, Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle de Marseille, Muséum d’Aix-en-Provence and the Muséum Départemental du Var in Toulon. Most of the specimens (9255) come from France, and include data on 552 named species. For most of these specimens the geographical location, including geographical coordinates, is based on the locality (town or village) where they were collected. The specimens were captured from the beginning of the nineteenth century to 2018. The identifications of 1440 specimens, mainly belonging to the genus Bombus, are considered reliable, as these were performed or been checked since 2009. All the other reported identifications are the original ones given by the original collectors.