Beetles in Biodiversity Map Database

Completed tasks

• Cooperative works
  • ⚬digitization of KFP volumes    ››› Access to the content
  • ⚬digitization of the monograph by Antoni Kuśka "Omomiłki (Coleoptera, Cantharidae): Cantharinae i Silinae Polski": acquisition of species characteristics and occurrence data    ››› Results
• Taxonomy update based on CPC (with ammendments)
• Expanding of the Coleoptera@PL database, adding other taxonomical groups and creating the BioMap Database (acronym of the  Biodiversity Map)
  • ⚬hierarchical taxa structure
  • ⚬enhanced synonymy
  • ⚬filtering system filtrów and search tools
  • ⚬static and dynamic maps with a set of generalization options
• Acquisition of new data on species occurrence (records) from publications and specimen collections

Pending tasks

• Georeferencing of acquired records
• Development of an online tool for introducing and editing data in the database

Constant tasks

• Updating taxonomies of groups and maintaining checklists of species occurring in the country
• Acquisition of new occurrence data