SITE-100 Coleoptera Biodiversity Database
Natural History Museum· Molecular Systematics · Coleoptera

SITE‑100

An integrated Coleoptera biodiversity database linking voucher specimens, georeferenced localities, images, and mitogenome sequences.

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Specimens
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Images
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Mitogenomes
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Countries
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Architecture

One specimen, five data layers

Each physical voucher is the central record, linked to its collection data, geographic location, taxonomy, images and mitogenome sequence; mitogenomes in turn place the specimen in the reference phylogeny.

Voucher specimen · central record
MS285
Collection data
2013-12-01
Beating
Location
6.0, 116.7
Poring, Malaysia
Indo-Malay
Taxonomy
Xylotrechus buqueti
Cerambycidae · Cerambycinae
Image
MS285B
Flickr · iNaturalist
Mitogenome
BIOD00535
GenBank: PX615978
Placed in the reference tree

Specimen IDs, image IDs, mitogenome IDs and accession numbers can all be used to query the API and retrieve the full record. Data Access →

Explore

Browse the database

Each page provides a different lens on the same underlying data — from global distribution to individual mitogenome sequences.

Map
Interactive world maps of sampling sites and mitogenome distribution, with counts and taxonomic breakdown by locality and source.
Specimen map Sequence map
Phylogeny
Mitogenome tree with family annotation rings, specimen images, and locality metadata per tip. It is possible to upload trees and display their corresponding images using our mitogenome as tips (newick format).
View tree
Specimen records
One page per voucher: identification with full lineage, collection data, images and each linked mitogenome with its GenBank accession. Specimen IDs on the map, phylogeny and download pages open these records.
Example record
Download
Download specimen checklists (CSV, with field selection) and curated mitogenome sequences (GenBank / FASTA / CSV) by taxonomy, country or locality.
Specimen download Sequence download
Data curation
How specimens, mitogenomes, and taxonomy were generated — sequencing pipeline, quality control, and data sources.
Read
Data Access
Programmatic access via REST API. Search and download specimens, sequences, and phylogenetic metadata. Public endpoints, no account required.
API docs
Citation

How to cite

If you use SITE-100 data in your research, please cite:

The database
Wu Y, Pestana Correia M, Zhou Z, Ounjai S, Creedy TJ, Scott A, Evans JE, Carpenter F, Liu H, Garner BH, Jin L, Bai M and Vogler AP. (2026). The SITE-100 database for the molecular taxonomy of Coleoptera: linking vouchers, images, mitochondrial genomes, and phylogenetic trees. Manuscript in preparation.
The SITE-100 project
Bian X, Garner BH, Liu H and Vogler AP. (2022). The SITE-100 project: site-based biodiversity genomics for species discovery, community ecology, and a global tree-of-life. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 10: 787560. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.787560

Data access requests: site100database@gmail.com