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.


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

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)