The book series "Biodiversidad de artrópodos argentinos" as a proxy to evaluate the state of knowledge of our national joint-legged invertebrate biodiversity

The data is stored in a plain text file formatted for compatibility with the TNT Phylogeny software. The file includes the appropriate header lines required for proper interpretation by the program. The matrix consists of the presence/absence records of arthropod species across the 24 provinces (states) of Argentina, comprising a 24 (provinces) × 6,369 (species) matrix. Code/software The matrix can be viewed and edited using any plain-text editor and analyzed using the TNT Phylogeny Program (Goloboff et al., 2008; available at https://www.lillo.org.ar/phylogeny/tnt/). Access information Data was derived from the following sources: Main source of information are the six volumes of the book series “Biodiversidad de artrópodos argentinos” freely available from https://csnat.unt.edu.ar/investigacion/institutos/insue/investigacion/publicaciones/libros.