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

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

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

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

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)