Odoanta of Akwa Ibom State University, Nigeria

Rosemary Essien1, Kehinde Kemabonta2, Kehinde Kemabonta3

1 Akwa Ibom State University, Department of Crop Science, Obio Akpa Campus, +234, Uyo, Nigeria; 2 University of Lagos, Department of Zoology, +234, Lagos, Nigeria; 3 

Corresponding author(s): Rosemary Essien (rosemary.essien@yahoo.com), Kehinde Kemabonta (kennykemabonta@yahoo.com)

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Resource Citation

Kemabonta K, A., Essien, R., Adu, B.W., Ogbogu, S. U., Iysa, A and Uche-Dike, R
Abundance, Distribution of Odonates (Dragonflies and Damselflies) In Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria, Pan African Jornal of Life Sciences 2019, 2

Abstract

Certain species of insects such as odonates, are used as bioindicators because they react intensely to disturbances in their living environment that could be due to anthropogenic or natural activities. Bioindicators or ecological indicators are taxa or groups of animals or plants that show signs when affected by environmental pressures due to human activities or the destruction of the biotic system.  This result is from funding by GBIF (BID-AF2017-0311) and University of Lagos, Nigeria(CRC 2016/21) that involved the Digitization and Mobilization of Odonata of Southern Nigeria and molecular characterization, DNA barcoding and banking of Odonata of South western Nigeria respectively. So far, over 4000 colletions from Lagos, Osun, Oyo and Ondo States have been digitized. Odonate collections from Akwa Ibom State comprised 836 individuals from 23 species, and four families. The families were Libellulidae (75%), Coenagrionidae (24%), Calopterygidae (0.1%) and Chlorocyphidae (0.4%). Three dominant species found from the collections include Palpopleura lucia (39%), Orthetrum chrysostigma (9%) and Pseudagrion kersteni (9%). Two species with only one individual were Phaon iridipennis and Thoymis tillarga.

Keywords: Occurrence, Specimen

Project details

Project title: The Digitization and Mobilization of Odonata of Southern Nigeria
Personnel: Kehinde Kemabonta, Rosemary Essien, Rhema Uche-Dike
Funding: BID-AF2017-0311-SMA
Study area descriptions/descriptor: Akwa Ibom States

Data published through GBIF: http://ipt-nigeria.gbif.fr/resource?r=odoantes_from_akwa_ibom_state_university

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: Insects from Order Odonata- dragonflies and damselflies.
Taxonomic ranks
Order: Odonata
Common names: Dragonflies

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Collections of specimens are from and around AKSU Uyo
Coordinates: 4°58'55.2''N and 5°3'54''N Latitude; 7°51'10.8''E and 7°58'4.8''E Longitude 

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Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Odoanta of Akwa Ibom State University, Nigeria
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://ipt-nigeria.gbif.fr/archive.do?r=odoantes_from_akwa_ibom_state_university
Publication date of data: 2019-08-26
Language: English
Licences of use: Public Domain (CC0 1.0)

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2019-01-21
Hierarchy level: Dataset