AnthWest, occurrence records for wool carder bees of the genus Anthidium (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae, Anthidiini) in the Western Hemisphere

AnthWest is a large dataset, one of the outcomes of a comprehensive, broadly comparative study on the diversity, biology, biogeography, and evolution of Anthidium Fabricius in the Western Hemisphere. In this dataset a total of 22,648 adult occurrence records comprising 9,657 unique events are documented for 92 species of Anthidium, including the invasive range of two introduced species from Eurasia, A. oblongatum (Illiger) and A. manicatum (Linnaeus). The geospatial coverage of the dataset extends from northern Canada and Alaska to southern Argentina, and from below sea level in Death Valley, California, USA, to 4,700 m a.s.l. in Tucumán, Argentina. The majority of the records in the dataset correspond to information recorded from individual specimens examined by the authors during this project, and deposited into 60 biodiversity collections located in Africa, Europe, North and South America.
A fraction (4.8%) of the occurrence records were taken from the literature, largely California records from a taxonomic treatment with some additional records for the two introduced species. The temporal scale of the dataset represents collection events recorded between 1886 and 2012.
The data underpinning the analysis reported in this paper are deposited at GBIF, the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, http://ipt.pensoft.net/ipt/resource.do?r=anthidium.

AnthWest是一款大型数据集，为针对西半球切叶蜂属（*Anthidium* Fabricius）的多样性、生物学、生物地理学与演化开展的全面且广泛比较研究的成果之一。本数据集总计收录22648条成虫发生记录，涵盖9657个唯一发生事件，涉及92个切叶蜂属物种，其中涵盖2种源自欧亚大陆的引入入侵物种的入侵分布记录：长切叶蜂（*Anthidium oblongatum* Illiger）与毛足切叶蜂（*Anthidium manicatum* Linnaeus）。
该数据集的空间覆盖范围北至加拿大北部与阿拉斯加，南抵阿根廷南部；海拔跨度则从美国加利福尼亚州死亡谷的海平面以下区域，延伸至阿根廷图库曼省海拔4700米的区域。
数据集内绝大多数记录来自本项目期间作者亲自检视的单个标本信息，这些标本均被馆藏于非洲、欧洲、南北美洲的60家生物多样性标本馆。
另有占比4.8%的发生记录源自公开文献，其中主要为一篇分类学研究中的加利福尼亚州相关记录，以及针对上述2种引入物种的部分补充记录。
本数据集的时间尺度覆盖1886年至2012年间的标本采集事件。
本文所报道的分析所依托的数据集，已存档于全球生物多样性信息设施（Global Biodiversity Information Facility，GBIF），存档链接为http://ipt.pensoft.net/ipt/resource.do?r=anthidium。