Dataset of the paper "Machine learning for expert-level image-based identification of very similar species in the hyperdiverse plant bug family Miridae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera)"

This dataset contains 3792 images of 26 plant bug (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae: Mirini) species used to test the performance of a CNN in species recognition. All jpg files are 1920 pixels on the long size and additionally available as an archive file to facilitate download of the entire dataset. Bar code labels (unique specimen identifiers or USIs) were attached to all examined specimens used for this study. Further information such as additional photographs of habitus and genitalic structures, georeferenced coordinates of each locality, specimens dissected, notes, collecting method can be obtained from the Heteroptera Species Pages (http://research.amnh.org/pbi/heteropteraspeciespage/) which assembles available data from a specimen database and are also provided as an Excel spreadsheet (file _Adelphocoris_CNN_label_data.xlsx).