Ants of the State of Pará, Brazil: a historical and comprehensive dataset of a key biodiversity hotspot in the Amazon Basin

We compiled a dataset of ant species from Pará recorded in the literature from 1886 (the first record in the literature of ants collected in Pará) to 2020. Most published data records were provided by the Global Ant Biodiversity (GABI) project (Guénard et al. 2017), including data extracted from AntWeb (AntWeb 2020). Next, we extracted geographical information from labels of specimens collected in Pará and deposited in one of the five main Brazilian entomological collections, namely Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi (MPEG); Coleção Entomológica Padre Jesus Santiago Moure at Universidade Federal do Paraná (DZUP); Centro de Pesquisas do Cacau at Comissão Executiva do Plano de Lavoura Cacaueira (CPDC); Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo (MZSP); and Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA). Thirdly, for the MPEG dataset, we retrieved records from the Brazilian Biodiversity Information System (SiBBr), a national online biodiversity database (https://www.sibbr.gov.br/). The SiBBr repository hosts and mirrors the information available from GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility; https://www.gbif.org). Lastly, material from recent surveys conducted by the authors in the state of Pará were also used to update the database.

我们构建了一套1886年至2020年间发表于文献的帕拉州（Pará）蚂蚁物种数据集，其中1886年为帕拉州蚂蚁采集记录的首次文献记载。绝大多数已发表的数据记录源自全球蚂蚁生物多样性项目（Global Ant Biodiversity, GABI）（Guénard等，2017），包含从蚂蚁在线数据库（AntWeb）2020版中提取的数据。其次，我们从在帕拉州采集且馆藏于五所巴西主要昆虫标本馆的标本标签中提取地理信息，这五所标本馆分别为：帕拉州立埃米利奥·戈尔德博物馆（Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, MPEG）、巴拉那联邦大学耶稣·圣地亚哥·莫尔神父昆虫标本馆（Coleção Entomológica Padre Jesus Santiago Moure, DZUP）、可可种植计划执行委员会可可研究中心（Centro de Pesquisas do Cacau at Comissão Executiva do Plano de Lavoura Cacaueira, CPDC）、圣保罗大学动物学博物馆（Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, MZSP）以及亚马逊国家研究所（Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, INPA）。第三，针对MPEG数据集，我们从巴西生物多样性信息系统（Brazilian Biodiversity Information System, SiBBr）中检索相关记录，该系统为巴西国家级在线生物多样性数据库（https://www.sibbr.gov.br/）。SiBBr数据库托管并镜像了全球生物多样性信息设施（Global Biodiversity Information Facility, GBIF；https://www.gbif.org）的公开信息。最后，本研究团队近期在帕拉州开展野外调查所获取的标本材料，亦被用于该数据集的更新工作。