The cotton bollworm Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) is a key pest of various cropping systems in West and Central Africa, and developed insecticide resistance recently. Five applications have been selected and in collaboration with the staff from the Royal Museum for Central Africa will connect the datasets to GBIF using BioCASe and the data standard ABCD.Īfter shortly introducing the CABIN project, its objectives and results, the speaker will present the LINCAOCNET results on edible insects, followed by an overview of the five selected Central African data providers. The data are currently being checked for connecting to GBIF.īased on the success of and lessons learned from this pilot project, the CABIN project issued a call for Central African Biodiversity data providers. An interface has been developed to encode the data after the intitial duration of the project. Audio recordings of the common name of insects and host plants in local languages are also available on the website to document heir pronunciation. In terms of media, pictures are provided showing the insects, the host plants, market scenes and preparation methods for culinary use. A species page exists for each observation with information such as the scientific and local common name, the locality, a map based on its GPS coordinates, information on the collecting methods, host plants and possible recipes. The results show that from 7 to 23 different species are eaten in each visited country, such as different taxa of caterpillars, maggots and crickets. This website is technically based on Drupal, Postgres, Zoomify and the client API of GoogleMap. Gathered data were made available to the public via a website (). The visited ten countries were Niger, Democratic Republic of Congo, Cameroon, Mali, Central African Republic, Togo, Benin, Congo Brazzaville, Guinea Conakry and Burkina Faso. African Biodiversity data has been connected to GBIF using the ABCD (Access to Biological Collection Data) standard.Ī joint two year pilot project on edible insects has been undertaken in the framework of the LINCAOCNET (Les Insectes Comestibles d'Afrique de L'Ouest et Centrale sur Internet) project, co-financed by the Fonds Francophone des Inforoutes and the Belgian Cooperation, in French-speaking countries of Western and Central Africa.
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In collaboration with the French GBIF node, the GBIF Training Manual I: Digitisation of Natural History Collections Data (GBIF, 2008) has been entirely translated in French.Īn African data portal using BioCASe (Biological Collection Access Service for Europe) technologies has been installed in Kinshasa at the CEDESURK (Centre de documentation de l'enseignement Supérieur, Universitaire et de la Recherche de Kinshasa).
During the last four years, several training sessions have been organized following the GBIF data providers program. The CABIN project is a five year project financed by the Belgian Cooperation, which aims to increase and enhance access to and sharing of Biodiversity information in Central Africa.
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