Taxonomic Revision of Bolbapium Beetles with Species Descriptions

Neotropical region species data for the beetle genus Bolbapium. The dataset contains digitized taxonomic treatments from a 2022 revision paper by Edrielly Carvalho and Fernando Z. Vaz-de-Mello, published in the Journal of Natural History. It includes redescriptions of 13 species, the transfer of one species, and the description of nine new species.

Use Cases

• Training species classification models based on morphological descriptions.
• Mapping species distributions based on the provided distribution maps.
• Conducting phylogenetic analyses using the revised taxonomic relationships.
• Validating species identifications against the provided illustrations and type material designations.

Strengths

• Based on a peer-reviewed journal article published in 2022.
• Covers 22 species within the genus, including 9 newly described ones.
• Includes illustrations, distribution maps, and type material designations.

Limitations

• Row count and specific data structure are unknown.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred from the article.
• Data may reflect the geographic and taxonomic focus bias inherent to a single revision paper.

Provenance

Source

Digitized treatments from Plazi based on the original journal article.

Collection Method

Taxonomic revision and digitization.

Geography

Neotropical region.