Records of Heilipus species included in the article: Host plants of the weevil genus Heilipus Germar, 1824 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Molytinae: Molytini: Hylobiina)
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Abstract
Heilipus Germar, 1824 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Molytinae: Molytini: Hylobiina) is a largely understudied tropical lineage of weevils with 90 described species distributed from the southern United States to northern Argentina. Several of its species cause damage to avocado (Persea americana Mill.; Lauraceae Juss.) crops in the Americas. Aside from the economically important species, information regarding the host plants of Heilipus is scarce. This dataset contains information about the host plants of larval stages of Heilipus, as detailed in the paper “Host plants of the weevil genus Heilipus Germar, 1824 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Molytinae: Molytini: Hylobiina)", published in Contributions to Entomology journal. The dataset was built based on a literature review and the examination of label data associated with entomological material deposited in museums and scientific collections. Data are presented in an Excel file with two sheets. The first one contains occurrence records from 85 Heilipus specimens housed in three natural history collections (CEAH, MEFLG, and USNM) and supports host plant interactions not previously documented in the literature. The second sheet comprises information extracted from bibliographic resources, including agricultural reports, books, bulletins, catalogues, checklists, dissertations, and scientific papers on the genus Heilipus. According to this dataset and the published paper, the larval stages of 24 Heilipus species are associated with 38 plant species belonging to 13 genera: 33 species (12 genera) from the family Lauraceae, and five species (one genus) from the family Annonaceae Juss.
https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.0cfxpnwbn
Description of the data and file structure
This file includes two sheets with data. Sheet 1 corresponds to transcribed data labels on specimens housed in biological collections. Sheet 2 contains information extracted from bibliographic resources (see methods and associated paper).
Files and variables
File: Supplementary_Material_PJS_2_129094.xlsx
Description: Occurrence data of 85 Heilipus specimens deposited in natural history collections are organized according to 14 fields: country, stateProvince, municipality, locality, decimalLatitude, decimalLongitude, recordedBy, eventDate, scientificName, individualCount, associatedTaxa, basisOfRecord, institutionCode, and catalogNumber. These are among the many fields included in a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standard for packaging and publishing biodiversity data. Definitions of these fields can be consulted in the most recent Darwin Core List of Terms.
The field “institutionCode” refers to the acronyms of the collections in which the specimens are deposited. The three acronyms listed in the first sheet of the Excel file correspond to the following institutions:
- CEAH: Coleção Entomológica Adolph Hempel, Instituto Biológico, São Paulo, Brazil.
- MEFLG: Museo Entomológico Francisco Luis Gallego, Universidad Nacional Sede Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia.
- USNM: Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Department of Entomology, Washington, D.C., United States of America.
Regarding the second sheet of the Excel file, information extracted from bibliographic resources is organized into 9 fields: country, stateProvince, municipality, locality, decimalLatitude, decimalLongitude, scientificName, associatedTaxa, and bibliographicCitation. The last field contains the bibliographic citation of the document from which the data were extracted. Links to almost all these documents can be consulted in the paper associated with this dataset.
Data correspond to a total of 90 records. Of these, 84 records document associations between 21 Heilipus species and 26 plant species. Six additional records pertain to associations between six plant species and undetermined Heilipus species.
* In both sheets, cells with the value “null” indicate data that is not available on the labels associated with specimens deposited in natural history collections, nor in the bibliographic references used.
Code/software
The dataset is provided as an Excel (.XLSX) spreadsheet. It is readable and editable using Microsoft Excel or any program that supports .XLSX files.
Access information
Other publicly accessible locations of the data:
Data available in the article “Host plants of the weevil genus Heilipus Germar, 1824 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Molytinae: Molytini: Hylobiina)”, published in Contributions to Entomology Journal.
Data was derived from the following sources:
Collection data on labels of specimens of the genus Heilipus examined in entomological museums and collections, as well as documents published on this group of weevils, including agricultural reports, books, bulletins, catalogues, checklists, dissertations, and scientific papers.
A total of 931 specimens of the genus Heilipus were examined in 20 natural history collections in Brazil (20 specimens), Colombia (249), Mexico (142), United Kingdom (118), and United States (402). Only 40% of the examined specimens had information on their habits and host plants. Furthermore, only 7% of these 40% corresponded to plants other than avocado. Consequently, occurrence data from only 85 specimens are presented, providing information on 12 host plant associations not previously reported in the literature. These 85 specimens belong to 13 locality records for 10 Heilipus species, and are deposited at the Coleção Entomológica Adolph Hempel, Instituto Biológico, São Paulo, Brazil (CEAH), Museo Entomológico Francisco Luis Gallego, Universidad Nacional Sede Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia (MEFLG), and Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Department of Entomology, Washington, D.C., United States of America (USNM).