A Darwin Core Dataset of Scorpions (Arachnida: Scorpiones) from the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS) Collections

Fabiola  Durante1, Lorenzo  Prendini2, Roberto Pizzolotto1, Gladys Wérenne3, Léon Baert4, Tobias Musschoot5, Wouter Dekoninck6, Fabiola Durante7

1 Biology Ecology and Earth Sciences Dept., Calabria University, Via Pietro Bucci, Cubo 4B, 87036, Rende (CS), Italy; 2 Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, United States; 3 Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, University of Liège, Passage des Déportés, 2, B-5030, Gembloux, Belgium; 4 Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences, Vautierstaat 29, 1000, Brussels, Belgium; 5 Belgian Biodiversity Platform / Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences, Vautierstraat 29, 1000, Brussels, Belgium; 6 Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences, Vautierstraat 29, 1000, Brussels, Belgium; 7 Biology Ecology and Earth Sciences Dept., Calabria University, Via Pietro Bucci, Cubo 4B, 87036, Redne (CS), Italy

Corresponding author(s): Fabiola  Durante (fabiola.durante@unical.it)Lorenzo  Prendini (lorenzo@amnh.org)Roberto Pizzolotto (roberto.pizzolotto@unical.it)Gladys Wérenne (gladys.werenne@uliege.be)Léon Baert (lbaert@naturalsciences.be)Tobias Musschoot (tmusschoot@naturalsciences.be)Wouter Dekoninck (wdekoninck@naturalsciences.be), Fabiola Durante (fabiola.durante@unical.it)

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Resource Citation

Durante F, Prendini L, Pizzolotto R, Wérenne G, Baert L, Musschoot T, Dekoninck W (2026): A Darwin Core Dataset of Scorpions (Arachnida: Scorpiones) from the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS) Collections. v1.0. Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences. Dataset/Occurrence. 0002538-260208012135463 0002538-260208012135463

Abstract

This dataset documents the scorpion collection (Order Scorpiones C.L. Koch, 1850) housed at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Brussels. It provides a complete and up-to-date checklist of all specimens in the collection, including both fully identified specimens and those with incomplete taxonomic determinations (e.g., identified only to family or genus level). The dataset represents a valuable reference resource for research on biodiversity, systematics, and natural history of scorpions, supporting studies on global biodiversity patterns and environmental change. The data are made available in an open and standardized format, in accordance with FAIR principles, to facilitate interoperability, reuse, and integration with other international scientific resources.

Keywords: Occurrence, Specimen, natural history collection, RBINS, Scorpions

Data published through GBIF: https://ipt.naturalsciences.be/resource?r=rbins_scorpions

Taxonomic coverage

Taxonomic ranks
Order: Scorpiones

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: All over the world in 59 countries.
Coordinates: 90°0'0''S and 90°0'0''N Latitude; 180°0'0''W and 180°0'0''E Longitude 

Formation period: Since 1872

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive A Darwin Core Dataset of Scorpions (Arachnida: Scorpiones) from the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS) Collections
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://ipt.naturalsciences.be/archive.do?r=rbins_scorpions
Publication date of data: 2026-02-09
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License

External datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive
Distribution: https://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/download/request/0002538-260208012135463.zip

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2026-02-09
Hierarchy level: Dataset