Annotated checklist of the beetles of Abeti Soprani, a silver fir forest of Central Italy

The checklist contains 179 species of beetles which belong to 48 families. The species were collected during a field study carried out in the years 2012 and 2013 and aimed at describing the beetles of the area. The collection methods consisted in window flight traps and emergence traps. The study area, named Abeti Soprani, is a silver fir (Abies alba) forest located in the Central Apennines.

The checklist is annotated with information on the taxonomy of the species (order and family), number of individuals, geographic position, habitat type (following EUNIS habitat classification 2017), sampling protocol, collector name, specialist name, IUCN Red List categories of the saproxylic species (Carpaneto et al. 2015). 

The terms used for the dataset fields follows the Darwin Core Maintenance Group. 2020. List of Darwin Core terms. Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG). https://dwc.tdwg.org/list/

Investigations on spatial patterns and diversity have been based on this dataset and published (Parisi et al. 2016, 2020).

The harmonization of the dataset to the point of view of taxa, authorship, LSID and the massive upgrading of the related identifiers in Zenodo record was performed by the use of R script using respectively dplyr, taxize (Chamberlain and Szöcs, 2013) and zen4r (Blondel and Barde, 2020) packages.