The Menetries’ Tiger Moth Range and Ecology Database (1840s-2020)

A complete description of the Menetries’ Tiger Moth Range and Ecology Database is presented as a Data Descriptor article:Bolotov, I.N., Gofarov, M.Y., Koshkin, E.S., Gorbach, V.V., Bakhaev, Y.I., Berlov, O.E., Gordeev, S.Y., Kolosova, Y.S., Kondakov, A.V., Korshunov, A.V., Potapov, G.S., Sinev, S.Y., Sleptsov, S.S., Spitsyn, V.M., Strelnikov, E.G., Timchenko, A.V., Haverinen, R., Nupponen, K. & Saarenmaa, H. (2022) A nearly complete database on the records and ecology of the rarest boreal tiger moth from 1840s to 2020. Scientific Data 9:1230; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01230-8This database presents nearly all available information on the extremely rare Menetries’ Tiger Moth Arctia menetriesii (Eversmann, 1846) (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Erebidae) collected since its original description in 1846. Totally, it contains geographic, environmental, and temporal information on 78 occurrences. The database is composed by four parts as follows:(1) ArcMenDB_1840_2020.xlsx [database XLSX file].(2) ArcMenDB_Images.zip [ZIP archive with image files].(3) ArcMenDB_RefList.pdf [supplementary PDF file with full reference list].(4) ArcMenDB_Museum_ID.pdf [supplementary PDF file with information on public museums and private collections].A supplementary image file with the logo of the database [ArcMenDB_LOGO.jpg] is also available.