Spatial occurrence records and distributions of tropical Asian butterflies

作     者：Eugene Yu Hin Yau Emily E Jones Toby Pak Nok Tsang Shuang Xing Richard T Corlett Patrick Roehrdanz David J Lohman Adam Kai Chi Lee Catherine Wai Ching Hai Shawan Chowdhury Jane K Hill Jade A T Badon Cheong Weei Gan Yves Basset I-Ching Chen Suzan Benedick Anuj Jain Tiffany L T Ki Krushnamegh Kunte Akihiro Nakamura Lien Van Vu Sarah A Scriven Alice C Hughes Timothy C Bonebrake 

作者机构：School of Biological Sciences The University of Hong Kong Pokfulam Hong Kong China. The University of Toronto Scarborough 1265 Military Trail Scarborough ON M1C 1A4 Canada. School of Ecology Shenzhen Campus of Sun Yat-sen University Shenzhen 518107 China. Center for Integrative Conservation & Yunnan Key Laboratory for the Conservation of Tropical Rainforests and Asian Elephants Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden Chinese Academy of Sciences Mengla Yunnan China. Royal Botanic Gardens Royal Botanic Gardens Kew UK. Moore Center for Science and Solutions Conservation International Arlington VA USA. Department of Biology City College of New York City University of New York 160 Convent Avenue New York New York NY 10031 USA. PhD Program in Biology City University of New York 365 Fifth Avenue New York NY 10016 USA. Entomology Section National Museum of Natural History Rizal Park Manila 1000 Philippines. School of Biological Sciences Monash University Clayton Victoria 3168 Australia. Czech University of Life Sciences Prague Faculty of Environmental Sciences Prague Czech Republic. Biodiversity Society 49/1 Babar Road Dhaka 1207 Bangladesh. Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity Department of Biology University of York York YO10 5DD UK. Animal Biology Division Institute of Biological Sciences University of the Philippines Los Baños Laguna 4031 Philippines. Nature Society Singapore 510 Geylang Road Singapore 389466 Singapore. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Apartado 0843-03092 Balboa Ancon Panama. Department of Life Sciences National Cheng Kung University Tainan City Taiwan. Faculty of Sustainable Agriculture Universiti Malaysia Sabah Locked Bag No. 3 90509 Sandakan Sabah Malaysia. bioSEA Pte Ltd. 68 Chestnut Avenue Singapore 679521 Singapore. Science Department Natural History Museum London SW7 5BD UK. Insect Ecology Group Department of Zoology University of Cambridge Cambridge CB2 3EJ UK. National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) GKVK Campus Bellary Road Bengaluru 560065 India. Yunnan Key Laboratory of Forest Ecosystem Stability and Global Change Response Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden Chinese Academy of Sciences Mengla Yunnan China. Vietnam National Museum of Nature Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology 18 Hoang Quoc Viet Cau Giay Ha Noi Vietnam. School of Biosciences University of Melbourne Parkville Melbourne Australia. School of Biological Sciences The University of Hong Kong Pokfulam Hong Kong China. tbone@hku.hk. 

出 版 物：《Scientific data》 

年 卷 期：2025年第12卷第1期

页      面：1004页

基　　金：National Science Foundation China Excellent Young Scientist award Global Environmental Facility grant Vietnam Ministry of Science and Technology [DTDL.CN-113/21] 

摘      要：Insect biogeography is poorly documented globally, particularly in the tropics. Recent intensive research in tropical Asia, combined with increasingly available records from citizen science, provides an opportunity to map the distributions of tropical Asian butterflies. We compiled a dataset of 730,190 occurrences of 3,752 tropical Asian butterfly species by aggregating records from GBIF (651,285 records), published literature (27,217), published databases (37,695), and unpublished data (13,993). Here, we present this dataset and single-species distribution maps of 1,576 species. Using these maps, along with records of the 2,176 remaining species, we identified areas of limited sampling (e.g., Myanmar and New Guinea) and predicted areas of high diversity (Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo). This dataset can be leveraged for a range of studies on Asian and tropical butterflies, including 1) species biogeography, 2) sampling prioritization to fill gaps, 3) biodiversity hotspot mapping, and 4) conservation evaluation and planning. We encourage the continued development of this dataset and the associated code as a tool for the conservation of tropical Asian insects.