Surprisingly, a springtail expert on iNaturalist has suggested a species ID for this springtail. I wasn't expecting it to be able to be identified to that detail, but it certainly matches the description. It looks like it's *Bourletiella arvalis*.

That makes the springtail a lot more interesting than the moth it's on.

The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (#GBIF) has 334 observations of the moth species (178 of which are from iNaturalist).

GBIF has only 16 observations of this springtail species from New Zealand. If confirmed, my little hitch-hiker here will be the 17th.

→ GBIF Geocoder: using GBIF to find places on a map
https://iphylo.blogspot.com/2026/02/gbif-geocoder-using-gbif-to-find-places.html

“The idea behind the "GBIF Geocoder" is that GBIF has a huge number of geocoded specimens, and hence if you are looking for coordinates for a locality there is a good chance that somebody has already found them. So, all we need to do is search GBIF for specimens with localities that match the place you are trying to geocode.”

#map #GBIF #place #geocode #locality #coordinates

@JorisMeys use #GBIF species occurrence point-data (@gbif ). Also spatial, and combinable: https://geodaten.bayern.de

Introducing *Austramathes coelacantha*!

I uploaded this moth to iNaturalist from my moth lighting last month in the NZ mountains. It's now the first iNat record of this NZ endemic moth, which was first described as a species in 2017.

This adds to the five records of the species on GBIF from the NZ Arthropod Collection (four specimens from 1975 and one from 2023).

It's known (so far) from shrublands and beech forests of central and eastern South Island. Its caterpillars have not been confirmed yet, although they're expected to be on *Melicytus* (mahoe and relatives).

Big thanks go to NZ moth expert Neville Hudson for identifying this. Neville has so far made 171,359(!) species identifications on iNaturalist, almost all moths, and all done for free. It's an extraordinary contribution to our knowledge of NZ moths.

https://inaturalist.nz/observations/338636198

#mothodon #moths #Lepidoptera #nz #iNaturalist #iNaturalistNZ #GBIF #entomology #CitizenScience

Here's another of the six new moth species to my garden this year, in Ōtautahi-Christchurch, NZ. This one had me puzzled until NZ moth expert Neville Hduson from Auckland identified it this morning on #iNaturalist.

It's the Australian Wattle Gall Miner, *Polysoma eumetalla*, and this is the third record of it on #GBIF from the South Island.

It's a pretty wee thing but easily overlooked because it's tiny (see the second photo of it next to a green garden looper moth).

Remarkably, its caterpillars make their living mining inside galls on some Australian wattle trees, which in NZ are formed by the Australian rust fungus *Uromycladium tepperianum*.

#mothodon #moths #Lepidoptera #nz #entomology #insects #iNaturalistNZ

在 Living Data 2025 中有一場 Wikidata 專題演講：【#Wikimedia 與生物多樣性資料：在開放知識生態系中的互惠關係】，議程中探討了 Wikimedia 各專案（#Wikipedia、 #Wikidata 、 #Commons）與全球生物多樣性基礎建設（如 #GBIF、#iNaturalist、Biodiversity Heritage Library／#BHL）之間的交會點，並強調它們在資料動員、標準化、公共參與與知識傳播上的協同作用。

此外，同時討論了 Wikimedia 的社群特性如何協助串連標本資料、文獻以及多媒體資源，朝向建立一個鏈結式(Linked)的生物多樣性知識圖譜。

該議程提供一個討論空間，希望聚焦於生物多樣性資料如何與 Wikimedia 平台連結，確保生物多樣性知識能以開放、結構化、且易於研究者、政策制定者與大眾取得的方式呈現。

議程演講已經公開歡迎至 YouTube 觀看：https://youtu.be/wXaHJ85g88A

#維基數據 #維基資料 #開放資料
#OpenData

Hier Karten zur Verbreitung der #AsiatischenHornisse für die Jahre 2023-2026. Die Daten kommen von der #GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility). Die Daten erfüllen damit GBIF-Standards, sind aber nicht von mir kuratiert oder validiert. Die Daten ziehe ich über eine API der GBIF mittels HTML Code. https://www.bio-kultur.org/vespa-velutina/

Here a first trial to access #CastorFiber data for the last and the current year via the #gbif #API. I had the help of Gemini for creating #html since I am not used to this. However, it would be valuable to get some hints were to find a verified approach by humans 😊 . I basicly want to track species occurrences from gbif with the most recent data there and make them public (with reference to gbif of course).

📢 Registrations for #BioMonWeek2026 are opening in early February!

📍 Montpellier, France
📅 4–8 May 2026
Join the first edition of the European conference on cooperation and innovation in biodiversity monitoring, bringing together science, policy and business communities

www.biomonweek.eu

@BiodiversaPlus #GBIF, #MARCOBOLO, #BioAgora #AllianceforNature

Created a little tool to make it easier for people to download and cite images from #GBIF, and wrote a paper about it that was published today

Paper: https://journals.ku.edu/jbi/article/view/24326

Tool: https://github.com/mark-pitblado/gbif-image-downloader

Playing around again in anticipation of my trip to central America. This is the distribution of the Jaguar (Panthera onca) in America according to #gbif data. https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.zpvh69

The data was obtained from #gbif https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.cbmhc3

Are there some #qgis and #linux Nerds here working with occurence Data from #gbif ? Under this set up my occurrence data is is way off were it should be despite correct kbs / projection. Also points are as decimal separators in the data as required in qgis. Under #windows and #qgis it’s all fine.

New updates just dropped 👇

💚 #rgbif version 3.8.4
New features &🐞 bug fixes
🔗 https://docs.ropensci.org/rgbif/news/index.html

💙#pygbif version 0.6.6
🔗 https://pygbif.readthedocs.io/en/latest/changelog_link.html

Stats all folks! 👋

#Rstats #python #GBIF

Ich spreche heute über das Reptilien Projekt des NABU #Köln und Datenerfassung auf der Kölner Reptilientagung. Naturgucker, Observation, iNaturalist, #Gbif, #Datasette, #QGIS wird vorkommen 🤓

Watch out: the weather is warming and the American ragwort aphids are *multiplying*.

American ragwort aphids specialise on Senecio plants, of which NZ has many species, including some threatened endemic species.

The aphid arrived in NZ (somehow) in 2023, and has since got to work munching on our plants. The American aphids are also now being tended and protected by exotic Australian ants.

In the South Island these aphids are still restricted to Christchurch city (at least based on observations on #iNaturalist and #GBIF).

It would be great if you could keep a look out for them in other places. They're the only big black aphid in NZ (black bodies and legs).

Here are three of my observations of them from this month.

#aphids #PlantInsectInteractions #herbivory #BiologicalInvasions #NZ #Christchurch #iNaturalistNZ #insects #entomology

https://inaturalist.nz/taxa/453265-Aphis-lugentis

Here’s an exciting local plant discovery. Young botanist William Reinders this month stumbled across this diminutive plant growing in a damp seep in a volcanic rock. Turns out it's the first time this species, the New Zealand Mousetail, Myosurus minimus novae-zelandiae, has been seen on Banks Peninsula in at least many decades. The species is At Risk-Declining nationally and there are no records of it on #GBIF from the Canterbury region.

https://inaturalist.nz/observations/311849971

#botany #nz #iNaturalist #iNaturalistNZ

When I was running up in the Christchurch Port Hills on Friday, I noticed and photographed a distinctive parasitoid wasp. It has a bright red head and thorax and the rest of it is black.

I checked my photos against braconid wasps on #iNaturalist and figured out that it's the NZ endemic wasp, *Asobara antipoda*. That ID has now been confirmed by Otago Museum entomologist Steve Kerr on #iNaturalistNZ.

This is only the third record of this species from the Canterbury region on #GBIF. Mine is the second record from iNat and the other is a pinned specimen collected in 1922 from the NZ Arthropod Collection.

Poorly documented species like this are all around us, even in cities.

https://inaturalist.nz/observations/291632552

#entomology #Hymenoptera #nz

@ml @alexwild

I'll wait to hear the details from iNat on this. To operate at the scale they do, they use tech from Google (maps), Amazon AWS (photo storage), and Microsoft Azure (database hosting).

>what do they do with that data. What are the guardrails and community involvement?

Observations on iNat are owned by the observers and what can be done with our data depends on the licenses we place on our observations. Everything with an open license that reaches a "research grade" identification on iNat already gets shared with the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (#GBIF), and can be downloaded directly from iNat.

I've got all my observations licensed CC-BY so anyone can use them for anything.

The Herbario EEZA - Colección de Angiospermae, from the Estación Experimental de Zonas Áridas (CSIC), expands to 5,076 records and 934 species:

▶️ https://doi.org/10.15470/ttw9mc #CiteTheDOI
▶️ https://colecciones.gbif.es/public/showDataResource/dr1302?lang=en

#datapublication #gbif #biodiversity