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Dataset	Author	Type	Licence
HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Please note: HOSTS will not be further updated or amended. This dataset is an archival resource and has been made available in full for those who wish to re-use and build on the... CSV PDF	Gaden S. Robinson; Phillip R. Ackery; Ian Kitching; George W Beccaloni; Luis M. Hernández	Research	Creative Commons CCZero
Checklist of the Lepidoptera of the British Isles - Data An Excel spreadsheet containing the current scientific names & codes from the "Checklist of the Lepidoptera of the British Isles" by Agassiz, Beavan & Heckford. This has... XLSX	David Agassiz; S D Beavan; Robert J Heckford	Citizen Science	CC-BY-SA-4.0
Birdwing Butterfly Collection The Birdwing Butterfly collection comprises the records of all the pinned material of Ornithoptera, Trogonoptera and Troides at the Natural History Museum, London at the time of...	Peter Wing; Louise Allan; James Ayre; Maxwell Barclay et al.	Collections	Creative Commons CCZero
Papilionoidea New Types Digitisation Project The Papilionoidea type collection comprises the records of recently acquired (~last 20 years) Papilionoidea type material held within a synoptic collection at the Natural...	Robyn Crowther; Louise Allan; Maxwell Barclay; Blanca Huertas	Collections	Creative Commons CCZero
iCollections: British and Irish Pyraloidea (Moths) Collection The Pyraloidea collection comprises the records of all British and Irish material at the Natural History Museum, London at the time of project completion (August 2019). It...	Robyn Crowther; Elizabeth Devenish; Phaedra Kokkini; Nicola Lowndes et al.	Collections	Creative Commons CCZero
Atlas of Living Malaysia The Atlas of Living Malaysia project comprises the records of pre-selected pinned insect specimens at the Natural History Museum, London. It includes representatives of over...	Robyn Crowther; Phaedra Kokkini; Peter Wing; Louise Allan; Maxwell Barclay; Laurence Livermore	Collections	Creative Commons CCZero
UK Georeferenced Master Sites iCollections Project This Natural History Museums (NHM) digitisation project has produced 7217 georeferenced master sites representing the collection localities for approx., 500,000 NHM Lepitoptera... CSV	Malcolm G Penn; L Duffel; Caitlin McLaughlin; Geoff Martin	Collections	Creative Commons Attribution

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