Taxonomic Resources / Catalogs

Introduction

This page is designed to provide a useful list of online resources or printed catalogs of insect taxonomic groups.

Online Resources

Blattodea

Name	URL	Description
Cockroach Species File (CSF)	http://cockroach.speciesfile.org/HomePage/Cockroach/HomePage.aspx	Comprehensive world database of cockroaches

Coleoptera

Coleoptera Taxonomic Resources / Catalogs

Dermaptera

Name	URL	Description
Dermaptera Species File	http://dermaptera.speciesfile.org/HomePage/Dermaptera/HomePage.aspx	Comprehensive world database of earwigs

Diptera

Diptera Taxonomic Resources / Catalogs

Embiidina

Name	URL	Description
Embioptera Species File (ESF)	http://embioptera.speciesfile.org/HomePage/Embioptera/HomePage.aspx	Comprehensive world database of webspinners
World List of Extant and Fossil Embiidina	http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/entomology/Entomology_Resources/embiilist/index.htm	Flat catalog listing of webspinner species. Not updated since 1999.

Ephemeoptera

Name	URL	Description
Ephemeoptera of the World	http://www.insecta.bio.spbu.ru/z/Eph-spp/Contents.htm	Comprehensive listing of the mayflies of the world in a series of flat files

Hemiptera

Hemiptera Taxonomic Resources / Catalogs

Hymenoptera

Hymenoptera Taxonomic Resources / Catalogs

Isoptera

Name	URL	Description
Laboratório de Termitologia Catalog	http://www.termitologia.unb.br/	Comprehensive world database of termites

Mantodea

Name	URL	Description
Mantodea Species File (MSF)	http://mantodea.speciesfile.org/HomePage/Mantodea/HomePage.aspx	Comprehensive world database of praying mantids

Neuropterida (Neuroptera, Megaloptera and Raphidioptera)

Name	URL	Description
Lacewing Digital Library	http://lacewing.tamu.edu/index.html	Comprehensive world database of lacewings

Odonata

Name	URL	Description
Odonata Central	http://www.odonatacentral.org/index.php/TaxaAction.browse	Comprehensive world database of dragonflies and damselflies

Orthoptera

Name	URL	Description
Orthoptera Species File	http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/HomePage/Orthoptera/HomePage.aspx	Comprehensive world database of grasshoppers, locusts, katydids and crickets

Phasmatodea

Name	URL	Description
Phasmida Species File (PSF)	http://phasmida.speciesfile.org/HomePage/Phasmida/HomePage.aspx	Comprehensive world database of walking sticks

Phthiraptera

Name	URL	Description
Phthiraptera.info	http://phthiraptera.info/	Comprehensive world database of lice

Plecoptera

Name	URL	Description
Plecoptera Species File	http://plecoptera.speciesfile.org/HomePage/Plecoptera/HomePage.aspx	Comprehensive world database of stoneflies

Siphonaptera

Name	URL	Description
FLEAS Home Page	http://www.zin.ru/Animalia/Siphonaptera/taxfind2.htm	Fairly comprehensive database of the fleas of the world

Trichoptera

Name	URL	Description
Trichoptera World Checklist	http://www.clemson.edu/cafls/departments/esps/database/trichopt/index.htm	Comprehensive database of the caddisflies of the world

Non-insect Groups

Plants

Name	URL	Description
The Plant List	http://www.theplantlist.org/	Database of the species of plants of the world
PLANTS Database	http://plants.usda.gov	Comprehensive database of plants from North America
GRIN Taxonomy for Plants	http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/queries.pl	Database of select plant groups of the world

Spiders

Name	URL	Description
World Spider Catalog	http://research.amnh.org/oonopidae/catalog/	Comprehensive database of the spiders of the world

Printed Catalogs

Hemiptera

Reduviidae

Reference	Description
Maldonado Capriles. 1990. Systematic catalogue of the Reduviidae of the world (Insecta: Heteroptera). Caribbean Journal of Science, Special Publication, 1: 1-694.	Comprehensive world catalog of Reduviidae (Hemiptera)