Construction of Asian Xylocopa Specimen Database BeeAXylo

A new specimen database of KONCHU, BeeAXylo based on Asian carpenter bees was con- structed. Each record consists of scientific names (family, genus and species), locality, collection date, collector, etc., according to the format of the Darwin Core of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). At this time the collection of Asian Xylocopa specimens preserved in Naturalis (The National Museum of Natural History in Leiden, the Netherlands) is available to the public via the Internet. We will continue to accumulate Asian Xylocopa data. In this paper, we present the home page of the file BeeAXylo. The database is administered by a SIGMA management system.