Iowa State Entomology Index of Internet Resources

Systematics, Morphology and Evolution

• A Bibliography of the Cucujidae (sens. lat) - A worldwide bibliography to the flat bark beetles (Coleoptera: Cucujidae (sens. str., Silvanidae, Laemophloeidae, Passandridae) with an emphasis on the systematic literature.
• A Guide to the Stick Insects of Australia - includes key and distribution map
• Acarology Bulletin - Newsletter of the Systematic and Applied Acarology Society
• Agriculture Western Australia Insect Reference Collection Database - 250,000 specimens
• Aleocharine Staphylinid Image Database - the photographs, scanning electron micrographs, half-tone drawings and line drawings in this database are being accumulated as potential illustrations for a guide to the aleocharine genera of North America and Mexico
• Allyn Museum of Entomology - over 1 million specimens, largely Lepidoptera. Florida
• American Stoneflies - Plecopteran photos
• An Illustrated Atlas of the Laemophloeidae Genera of the World - Illustrations of all the described laemophloeid genera (Coleoptera:Laemophloeidae), with notes on their distribution and number of species.
• An Illustrated Catalog of Orthoptera - Complete taxonomic and synonymic catalog of the superfamily Tettigonioidea (katydids, bush-crickets and their allies) of the world. It includes all taxa, from family down to subspecies, of Tettigonioidea described until the end of 1998. For Macintosh or Windows.
• An Introduction to Ants (Formicidae) of the Tallgrass Prairie - by James C. Trager. Ecology, taxonomy and restoration info on ants of the U.S. midwest tallgrass prairie.
• An Introduction to Insect Anatomy - a basic introduction
• Animal Diversity Web: Insecta - large image gallery of insects as well as a few sounds.
• Animals Occurring in Fresh Water in the British Isles, Including Invertebrates - Institute of Freshwater Ecology
• Antbase - provides access to information on all the ant species of the world
• Ants Recorded from the Hawaiian Islands
• AntWeb - ant faunas of several areas in the Nearctic and Malagasy biogeographic regions, and global coverage of all ant genera
• Aquatic Insects of Michigan - checklist and identification resources
• Arctiinae of the former USSR - a list of Arctiinae with full synonymy, references on first descriptions and distribution. Also data on Ethmiidae, Lithosiinae, Lasiocampidae
• Asilidae keys - subfamilies, etc.
• Australian Faunal Directory - checklists and bibliographies for Australian insects
• Australian National Insect Collection
• Automatic Bee Identification System
• Bee Genera of the World - Synonymic listing, including type species and subgenera; based on Michener, 2000, with updates.
• Beetles in Quaternary Studies - study of subfossil beetles at Colby College
• BioEd - multimedia tool to help teach taxonomy and systematics to undergraduates
• BioLink - integrated software for the collection, maintenance, analysis, application and dissemination of taxonomic, biodiversity and environmental information. Windows only
• Biological Survey of Canada - provides national direction for taxonomic and ecological work on Canada's insect fauna
• BioSystematic Database of World Diptera - fly names and information about those names and the taxa to which they apply. Taxonomic bibliography. National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
• Biota - biodiversity database manager. Mac or Windows
• Blattodea Species File Online - A comprehensive, up-to-date taxonomic database of world cockroaches.
• British Butterflies - covers 61 species from Britain and Ireland. Over one hour of motion video.
• Buprestidae of Prague, Carabidae of The World - Buprestidae (Jewel Beetles) of Prague and its surroundings, pictures and videos of beetles (Carabidae, Buprestidae, Cerambycidae)
• Butterflies of Catalonia
• Butterflies of Ireland - brief photographic guide
• Butterflies of New England - links to photos and species information
• Butterflies of North America - distributional data, thumbnails, and checklists
• Butterflies of North Asia - The site of late Yu.P. Korshunow, now guided by s. L. Nikolaev. A scientific site mostly dedicated to Durna studies of the Asian part of Russia.
• Butterfly Info in the Netherlands and Surrounding Areas - brief description and plates of each Dutch butterfly species, as well as a literature listing and butterfly-related poems
• California Odonata - dragonflies and damselflies of California
• Calodema Website of Dr TJ Hawkeswood - Website provides free PDF files of TJ Hawkeswood and his co-workers biological research.
• Canadian National Collection of Insects - 17 million specimens, mostly North American fauna. Ottawa, Canada.
• Carabidae of Germany
• Carabini of Yugoslavia and adjacent areas - The first in the series is the "Catalogue of the Fauna of Yugoslavia: Carabini" representing an interactive, multimedia guide through 140 taxa of Coleoptera from the tribe Carabini registered in Yugoslavia and the surrounding countries.
• Carnegie Museum of Natural History - 6.9 million specimens
• Catacola - underwing moths. Taxonomy, rearing guide, keys, egg gathering techniques
• Catalog of Diptera families
• Catalog of Stephanidae - (Hymenoptera)
• Catalog of Zoraptera - A catalog and bibliography of the Zoraptera
• Catalogue of the fossil flies of the world - over 3,100 species of fossil flies
• Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of the French Antilles - a database dealing with lepidopteran families occurring in the islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe. Many species listed here may be found throughout the West Indies.
• CATE Sphingidae - Project aimed to develop the methodology and sociology for transferring the enterprise of taxonomy onto the internet using hawkmoths (Lepidoptera, Sphingidae) and aroid lilies (Araceae) as exemplar taxa.
• Cerambycidae of Florida - Photographic atlas of the longhorn beetles (Coleoptera:Cerambycidae) of Florida, with an AutoMontage habitus photo of each species and a Florida distribution map.
• Ceratopogonid Information Exchange Newsletter - for those interested in Diptera: Ceratopogonidae
• Chalcid Forum - published by the USDA Systematic Entomology Laboratory
• Checklist and Status of Illinois Damselflies - (Odonata: Zygoptera)
• Checklist and Status of Illinois Dragonflies - (Odonata: Anisoptera)
• Checklist of Beetles (Coleoptera) of Florida - includes distribution within the state, extralimital distribution, and biology where known
• Checklist of Crickets North of Mexico
• Checklist of Czech and Slovak Beetles
• Checklist of European Odonates - (damselflies and dragonflies)
• Checklist of Finnish Lepidoptera
• Checklist of Florida Lepidoptera - An up-to-date list of all the butterflies and moths recorded from Florida. Includes alphabetical indices to both scientific and common names, and some linked images.
• Checklist of Iberian-Balearic Coleoptera
• Checklist of Insect Orders - simple checklist of insect orders, families and subfamilies
• Checklist of Japanese Psocoptera
• Checklist of Latvian Beetles - Full and updated list of all known species of Coleoptera in Latvia
• Checklist of Michigan Butterflies
• Checklist of Michigan Orthopteroids - over 150 species included.
• Checklist of North American Butterflies - includes 722 species
• Checklist of Odonata found in Michigan - Requires Adobe Reader as this file is in PDF.
• Checklist of Odonata Found in Oregon - checklists, county record maps, photographs, links to Odonata sites, Odonata-related projects in Oregon, notes on commercial nymph harvesting for fishing bait, notes on dragonfly migrations
• Checklist of South African Termites
• Checklist of Tachinidae (Diptera) of America North of Mexico
• Checklist of Tenebrionidae of Australia - including Lagriinae, Alleculinae
• Checklist of the Beetles of Canada and Alaska - nearly 7,500 species
• Checklist of the beetles of Germany - (Coleoptera) Verzeichnis der Kaefer Deutschlands. Compiled by 20 authors in cooperation with numerous coleopterologists. Published both in print (6,479 species presented separately for 18 regions) and in a database version (german checklist and sources of the 76,639 entries, updated taxonomic catalogue of the beetles of Central Europe with 8,887 species and other files).
• Checklist of the Buprestidae of Madagascare and Adjacent Oceanic Islands
• Checklist of the Cerambycidae of Madagascar and Adjacent Islands
• Checklist of the Chironomidae - by region
• Checklist of the Coleoptera of Oklahoma - Checklist and bibliography of the more than 2400 species of beetles known to occur in Oklahoma
• Checklist of the Collembola
• Checklist of the flat bark beetles of the world - Lists valid names of 1,058 species in families Cucujidae (sens. str.), Silvanidae, Laemophloeidae, and Passandridae, plus information on distribution.
• Checklist of the Hemiptera of Oklahoma - Checklist and bibliography of the more than 520 species of true bugs known to occur in Oklahoma
• Checklist of the Mantodea - genera, type species and synonymns
• Checklist of the Odonata of Connecticut
• Checklist of the Orthopteroid Orders of Oklahoma
• Checklist of the Social Vespidae of Michigan - includes Vespinae and Polistinae
• Checklist of the Sphingidae of British Columbia - Royal British Columbia Museum (PDF File)
• Checklist of Turkish Orthoptera
• Checklists and Keys to Australian Planthoppers - (Hemiptera : Auchenorrhynca). From New South Wales Agricultural Scientific Collections Unit.
• Checklists of Asilidae - (Diptera) catalog of world genera and species
• Chilean Insects - Universidad Catolica, Chile. South American insect photographs with habitats, links to Chilean entomologists, checklists of Buprestidae and Tenebrionidae
• Chironomidae and Water Beetles of Florida - Checklist of the Chironomidae (Diptera) and water beetles (Coleoptera) of Florida
• Chironomus Newsletter - covers research on Diptera: Chironomidae
• Chrysis.net - cuckoo wasps (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae). Image galleries, articles, research, hosts
• Clemson University - includes a virtual tour of the Clemson University arthropod museum. Photos of 19 display cases are the starting point. Click on individual specimens to view close-up image with name and short description
• Click Beetles of Hawaii
• ClubTail - dragonfly database software. Windows only
• Coccinellidae of the Indian Subcontinent - images of common species of lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) found in the agro-ecosystems of the Indian region, and their natural enemies. An annotated checklist of the Indian fauna and an illustrated key to common Chilocorus species of India are also available.
• Coleccion Entomologica, Universidad de Guadalajara - 15,000 specimens
• Coleoptera of Great Smoky Mountain National Park
• Coleoptera of Rhode Island, USA: An online checklist - Searchable family and species databases of over 2,100 Coleoptera species expected or documented from the state of Rhode Island.
• Coleoptera Taxonomic Literature Database - references and papers on higher classification of beetles
• Colour Atlas of the Siberian Lepidoptera - by Eduard Berlov
• Connecticut Butterfly Atlas Project - documenting the distribution of Connecticut butterflies
• Cornell University Insect Collection - historical overview of the collection, list of holdings of the main collection and information on the holdings in various orders, student faculty and staff associated with the collection, a searchable database of all types
• Cucujidae (sens. str.) of the World - (Coleoptera) Reviews the taxonomy, distribution, morphology, and biology of the flat bark beetles. Includes color photographs of representative species, a list of species, and a key to the genera of the world.
• Database of Illinois Lepidoptera - includes county information. Records gathered from 36 institutional and private collections. Specimens from 931 localities collected from 1893 to 1993. Over 1100 species representing 48 families are included.
• Database of Illinois Odonata - over 6,500 records gathered from institutional and private collections. Approximately 150 species representing 9 families are included in the database. The database includes records from 92 counties.
• DELIA - integrated DELTA database management software. Windows only
• DELTA - descriptive language for taxonomy
• Diptera types in the Canadian National Collection of Insects - Nematocera, Brachycera, Schizophora, Tachinidae
• Dipterological Research - an international journal of dipterological research with particular reference to the Palaearctic fauna.
• Directory of Ephemeroptera Workers - (Purdue) from Mayfly Central
• Distribution of Asilidae and Bombyliidae in the Netherlands - JavaFaunist distribution maps and activity period histograms of Asilidae and Bombyliidae (Diptera) in the Netherlands
• Dragonflies of the Southwest - includes distribution maps
• Dugesiana - a journal devoted to the study of insects and other arthropods published by the Universidad de Guadalajara is available free in the web (PDF). Articles on original research are refereed by specialists around the world. Contributions are accepted.
• E.H. Strickland Entomological Museum - 1 million specimens. Carabidae of the Nearctic are emphasized. University of Alberta. Includes Kenneth Bowman Collection of Lepidoptera.
• Earwig Research Centre - The website contains the most complete collection of checklists, photographs and drawings and an almost complete literature database on the Dermaptera, the earwigs. It is designed to help identification of specimens in any region of the world. By Fabian Haas, ICIPE Nairobi
• Earwigs (Dermaptera) in Japan
• ECatSym: Electronic World Catalog of Symphyta - Supported by GBIF, Global Biodiversity Information Facility, Copenhagen, the EcatSym Project is working on the first internet database for the approximately 10,000 valid sawfly taxa worldwide.
• Elateridae of Boreal North America - click beetles
• Elateroidea of Central, Caribbean, and South America - click beetles
• Electronic Key for Common Adult Grasshoppers of the Western United States - identify and find information for 58 of the most common adult grasshoppers of the Western U.S. which pose the greatest environmental and economic threat.
• English Names of North American Butterflies Occurring North of Mexico
• Entomological Expedition: Research and Collecting in the Dominican Republic - local biologist with knowledge and expertise of habitats and localities of the insects (mainly Lepidoptera and Coleoptera) offers services for entomological collecting expeditions.
• Entomology Abstracts - global coverage on the geographic distribution, nomenclature, new species, and more of insects and insect-like species.
• Eocene Insect Fossil Images - collected in northwest Colorado. They date at about 48 million years ago
• Ephemeroptera Germanica - German mayflies. In German and English.
• Ephemeroptera of Michigan - key to adults and nymphs
• Ephemeroptera of the World - Nikita Julievich Kluge, St. Petersburg State University
• Ephemeroptera Recording Scheme - British mayfly survey
• Essig Museum of Entomology - 4.5 million specimens, emphasizing western North America.
• Exploring California Insects - web-based field guide to more than 700 insects with over 2000 photographs. Downloadable curriculum
• Fire-Colored Beetles of Wisconsin - (Coleoptera:Pyrochroidae)
• Flea Beetles of North Dakota
• Flea News - from Iowa State University
• Fleas - (Siphonaptera) taxonomy, morphology, distribution, host-association and ecology, scanning electron micrographs. Hosted by Zoological Institute (St. Petersburg, Russia)
• Fleas of North Dakota - includes distribution maps
• Fleas of South Africa - compiled by Joyce Segerman
• Florida State Collection of Arthropods - 7.5 million prepared specimens. Worldwide collection, especially rich in material from the southeastern United States and the circum-Caribbean area
• Fly Fauna of Finland - A draft check list of Finnish flies
• Fly Times - Newsletter of the North American Dipterists' Society. Jeffrey M. Cumming and Art Borkent (editors)
• FlyEvidence - A Scottish based insect identification and Forensic Entomology service, based in East Lothian, Scotland.
• Fossil Dragonflies - photos of fossil dragonflies
• Fossil Mantophasmatodea
• French National Inventory of Mayflies - checklist of French Ephemeroptera
• Freshwater Invertebrate Survey of Suffolk - records for freshwater invertebrates from the county of Suffolk in England. Maintained by the county recorder. Photos, drawings, distribution maps and general information about the invertebrates recorded.
• Frost Entomological Museum - 700,000 specimens. Pennsylvania State
• Fruit Flies of New South Wales
• Global Butterfly Species Register - (GART) a global taxonomic catalog. State Museum of Natural History, Stuttgart.
• Goeldi Collection - 1 million specimens. Brazil
• Goliathus.cz: Online entomological experiences and insect museum - Online insect museum of Coleoptera and Lepidoptera, including bilateral gynandomorphs.
• Grasshoppers of Florida - color guide to grasshoppers in the southeastern United States, including maps. PDF format.
• Grasshoppers of New Mexico - Orthoptera: Acrididae and Romaleidae
• Ground Beetles of the World
• Guide to Orthoptera of the Netherlands - in Dutch
• Guide to the Grasshoppers of Wisconsin - keys, photos and species distributions
• Gulf of Guinea Islands' Biodiversity Network - biodiversity of the four islands of Bioko, Principe, Sao Tome and Annobon in the Gulf of Guinea. Entomological resources at present include checklists of the Coleoptera groups Cerambycidae, Lucanidae, Coccinellidae and Caraboidea and Lepidoptera Geometridae and Noctuidae.
• HANABACHI Japanese Bee Image Database - Each record is composed of family, genus and species (or subspecies), Japanese name, distribution data, type locality, type depository, source of the original description, synonymies, remarks, visiting or associated flowers, references, various images and distribution map.
• Hawaiian Arthropod Checklist - an authority file of non-marine arthropod names for the Hawaiian Islands
• Hawk Moths of the Philippines - (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae)
• Histerid Beetles (Coleoptera: Histeridae) of Louisiana
• Historical World Directory of Diptera Systematists - names and dates of birth and death for over 3,000 persons who have described new taxa in Diptera since Linnaeus with links to web pages or portraits
• Hong Kong Moths - investigates the zoogeography and phenology of moths in Hong Kong; pictures of species and species lists for several moth families included
• Hoverflies of South Germany - (Diptera: Syrphidae)
• Hymenoptera Online Database - queries of information from museum specimens as well as the literature
• Ichnews - for those interested in Ichneumonoidea
• Illiesia - International Journal of Stonefly Research - Completely free of charge International on-line Journal dealing with all aspects of stonefly (Plecoptera) research.
• Illinois Natural History Survey - 6 million specimens. Several insect databases, including a searchable, specimen level Plecoptera database . Dates back to 1858
• Illustrated Key to the Economically Important Leafhoppers of Australia - (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae)
• Images of New Zealand Lepidoptera type specimens - combined multi-page checklist and image collection. Provides images of type speciemens for the vast majority of New Zealand Lepidoptera species.
• Images of the Furman University Collection of North American Lepidoptera
• Index of Coleopterous Families - index of families of Coleoptera (beetles) of the world
• Insect and Spider Collections of the World - clearinghouse for information on world insect and spider collections. Maintained by Neal Evenhuis and G. Alan Samuelson.
• Insect Classification - three-credit distance education course offered via CD-ROM. From University of Florida.
• Insect Fauna of Tallgrass Prairies - pictorial catalogue of the insects identified from tallgrass prairies at three sites in western Minnesota
• Insect Systematics and Evolution - published for the Scandinavian Society of Entomology
• Insecta Mundi - publication of the Center for Systematic Entomology
• Insects from Former USSR for Collectors - insects from territory of former USSR, including, type locality, synonyms, range, distribution and variation, taxonomic notes, habitat and biology, similar species.
• Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals - Invertebrate Zoology Section. Research in animal systematics, paleontology, faunistics, and cytology. Poland
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System - taxon-based biological information system with drill-down capabilities
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System - a US government database of current names and classification
• Interactive checklist on Fulgoromorpha - (Hemiptera) from Museum national d'Histoire naturelle
• International Soybean Arthropod Collection - 300,000 specimens
• Inventory of Geometrid Moths of Europe - multimedia data on systematics, zoogeography and ecology
• Invertebrate Fossil Type Specimen Catalog - taxonomic (genus, species, and subspecies names) and publication (author, date, citation) information. Locality searches provide information on location and age.
• INVERTS-L - The INVERTS-L list is intended to allow more effient communication among taxonomists and collectors interested in specimens and/or identification of invertebrates in Hawaii.
• Iowa Odonates - Dragonflies and Damselflies of Iowa. Photos, maps, and checklists of dragonflies and damselflies recorded in Iowa.
• Japanese Ants Image Database - taxonomy of Japanese ants
• Katydids of Costa Rica Vol. 1 - Systematics and bioacoustics of the cone-head katydids by Piotr Naskrecki
• Key to Brazilian Termite Genera - in Portuguese
• Key to Butterflies of the Lake Baikal Region - almost 2000 high resolution full-color digital images of all 197 Baikalian species and many of its caterpillars and pupae. Includes pictured key to butterfly families and pictured keys to all species. Detailed information of every species (in Russian). HTML format for Macintosh or PC. First version 31 Dec 2001. Price: $30.00 US (incl. postage). For more information, contact olegberlov@narod.ru.
• Key to Conopidae (Diptera) of the Netherlands
• Key to Families and Genera of Japanese Bees
• Key to families and subfamilies of crickets
• Key to families and subfamilies of katydids
• Key to Genera of Chlamydopsinae - (Coleoptera: Histeridae). Requires free Lucid Player
• Key to Genera of Ecitoninae - Hymenoptera: Formicidae
• Key to Praying Mantids of the World - to the level of genera