Kullenberg Archives
A new dataset stemming from archival documents held at the Museum of Evolution, Uppsala University, has recently been published through GBIF Sweden. Mobilized from the Kullenberg Excursion Reports (1948–1996), thousands of insect occurrence records have been unlocked in this ongoing work, along with valuable contextual information such as sampling event details and observational notes.
By transforming these archival records into structured, interoperable data, the project marks an important step in making biodiversity information stored in natural history archives widely accessible to the research community.
The work has been led by Britt Anderman in collaboration with the Biodiversity Data Lab and the Montejo-Kovacevich Lab at Uppsala University.
Bertil Kullenberg
Bertil Kullenberg was professor of entomology at Uppsala University from 1968 to 1979. He studied the ecology and behaviour of insects and discovered, among other things, the connection between the fly orchid Ophrys insectifera and the pollinating wasp Argogorytes mystaceus. In addition to his excursion reports, the Museum of Evolution also contains insects and spiders collected by Bertil Kullenberg.