Taxonomic Resources / Catalogs
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Introduction
This page is designed to provide a useful list of online resources or printed catalogs of insect taxonomic groups.
Contents
Online Resources
Blattodea
| Name | URL | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Cockroach Species File (CSF) | http://cockroach.speciesfile.org/HomePage/Cockroach/HomePage.aspx | Comprehensive world database of cockroaches |
Dermaptera
| Name | URL | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Dermaptera Species File | http://dermaptera.speciesfile.org/HomePage/Dermaptera/HomePage.aspx | Comprehensive world database of earwigs |
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 |
Isoptera
| Name | URL | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Laboratório de Termitologia Catalog | http://www.termitologia.unb.br/ | Comprehensive world database of termites |
Orthoptera
| Name | URL | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Orthoptera Species File | http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/HomePage/Orthoptera/HomePage.aspx | Comprehensive world database of grasshoppers, locusts, katydids and crickets |
Odonata
| Name | URL | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Odonata Central | http://www.odonatacentral.org/index.php/TaxaAction.browse | Comprehensive world database of dragonflies and damselflies |
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 |
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
| 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 |
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) |
