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Korea Biodiversity Information System > Insect Resource > Insect Specimens > Guide to Insect Specimens
The National Forest Service established a specimen resource database, which is crucial for governmental management of insect resources. For this, data has been collected since 2001 from organizations that possess excellent insect specimens nationwide, on the basis of 23 organizations, including 15 universities such as Gangwon Univ., and three research centers (the National Arboretum, National Forest Research Institute, and the Jeju Natural History Museum). As of 2012, information on 550,000 specimens has been gathered, providing the basic infrastructure for insect resource management. An additional data update plan is currently in progress.
This established specimen data contains information on insect habitats and appearance season. Thus, it is expected to be used in several application fields by verifying the actual distribution of species and will play a crucial role in research and utilization of national biological resources.
Although various kinds of information on insect research established until now can be used to serve in understanding the actual state of insect resources, for the actual habitat state of each species, and detailed information for each species, the following provisions are required. Accordingly, the database construction centered on specimen resources that contain the most crucial information on all of the species.
Collection, specimen making, and preservation of insects are the foundation not only of biology, but also of any field that deals with insects. It is an area that must be used for academic purposes, and developed countries have been continuously securing and managing specimen resources secured by domestic and foreign exploration centering on natural history museums. It should be noted that it is being used as basic data to support a number of application areas. Specimen resources are not open to the public, especially recently, and require a small amount of identification commission upon reading the stored data. For your reference, in developed countries, a considerable identification fee is requested. Thus information about insect species should be established and serviced on the national level as soon as possible, and training related experts is also considered to be important. For example, the forest biological specimen museum planned by the National Forest Service is a national project related to this, and the management of biological specimens on a national level raises this as a practical problem.
The insect specimen database can be searched by organizations, collectors, collection sites, collection year, and insect taxa to be used in the following sections.
The National Biodiversity Information System is mainly divided into three search methods: by insect name, organization, and detailed search. The search methods are as follows.
Search by approaching a more specific taxon from a larger taxon.
(e.g.: Lepidoptera - Papilionidae - Papilio xuthus)When you insert information into the relevant section and search for it, you can find the data easily.
