Iowa State Entomology Index of Internet Resources

Systematics, Morphology and Evolution

• Key to Wyoming Grasshoppers: Acrididae and Tetrigidae - online presentation of a revison made in 1998 by Timothy J. McNary to a key developed by Dr. Robert E. Pfadt, Professor Emeritus, University of Wyoming
• Keys for butterflies from Venezuela - Morpho (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae), Xylophanes (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae), Diaphania (Lepidoptera: Crambidae)
• Lasiocampidae of a territory of the previous USSR - list of species with references on first descriptions and full distribution; from Atalanta 23(3/4): 531-548 (1992) with some additions and corrections
• Leafhoppers - classification and biology of leafhoppers and their relatives. Directory of leafhopper specialists. Key to major groups.
• Lepdiopterology.com - Butterfly and moth news, glossary, directory, electronic museum, almanac
• Lepibase - Butterflies of Europe. Author is Antti Roine from Finland. Includes high resolution photos of almost all European butterflies and many caterpillars as well as distribution maps.
• Lepidoptera of Norway
• Lepidopterists' Society - international organization for professional scientists and amateur enthusiasts
• LepIndex - Global Lepidoptera Names Index. A computerised and updated version of the Natural History Museum's (UK) unique and comprehensive card index archive to the scientific names of the living and fossil Lepidoptera of the world.
• Lincoln University Entomology Research Museum - 150,000 specimens. New Zealand sub-region with emphasis on the South Island fauna
• Longhorn Beetles (Cerambycidae) of the West Palaearctic Region - taxonomy, biology, and macrophotography of longhorn beetles of the West Palaearctic region
• Louisiana State Arthropod Museum - 400,000 specimens. Fauna of the southcentral United States and Circum-Caribbean region
• Lucidcentral - identification software for publishing interactive keys
• Lund University Museum of Zoology - 10-20 million specimens. Predates 1735 when the first donation to the University was made by Kilian Stobaeus, the first teacher of Carl Linnaeus. Sweden
• LVB - phylogeny program that uses parsimony to reconstruct phylogeny from a nucleotide alignment, using a simulated annealing heuristic search. This is suitable for moderately large data matrices. Unix, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
• Lyman Entomological Museum and Research Laboratory - 2.8 million specimens; second largest insect collection in Canada. Major groups include Orthoptera, Lepidoptera, Coleoptera, Hymenoptera. McGill University
• Lynn Scott's Lepidoptera Images - photographs of over 300 moth species from Ottawa, Canada
• Lysandra - software for creating keys and databases on gruops of organisms distributed on a CD-ROM. Downloadable demo. Windows only
• Macleay Museum Invertebrate Collection - 500,000 specimens. University of Sydney, Australia
• Mandala - FileMaker Pro database for data acquisition and management of systematics and biodiversity studies
• Mantis - freeware relational taxonomy and collection database designed for entomologists. Requires FileMaker Pro for Macintosh or Windows
• Mantophasmatodea of South Africa
• Mantophasmatodea Systematics - German and English
• Maurice T. James Entomological Collection - 1.25 million specimens. Fauna of the Pacific Northwest, especially Washington State
• Mayflies of Central America - (Purdue)
• Mayflies of North America - (Purdue)
• Mayflies of the United States - includes distribution maps
• Mexican Bee Database - in FoxPro format
• Michigan Lepidoptera Survey - documenting Michigan moths, butterflies and skippers. Includes checklist
• Moth Collecting and Curation Techniques - includes illustrated drying, spreading, and mercury vapor collecting hints
• Moths of North Dakota - identification guide, photos of adults and larvae
• Moths of Southeastern Arizona
• Museo del Instituto de Zoologia Agricola - Illustrated type collection, a module dealing with agricultural pest of Venezuela and more. Universidad Central de Venezuela at Maracay. English version now available for most modules.
• Museo Mariposas del Mundo - entomological museum with 70,000 specimens. Lepidoptera, Coleoptera and diverse arthropods of the world
• Museum Victoria - 2.8 million specimens. Australia
• Museum Wiesbaden - Department of Natural Science Collections. 40,000 specimens. Insect collections of: Merian, Gerning, Pagenstecher, Kirschbaum dating back to 1647
• Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County - Insects of the southwestern United States, aculeate hymenoptera, lepidoptera, diptera, coleoptera, odonata
• NC State AgNIC Systematic Entomology - a collaborative effort to collect, organize, and provide access to the best academic, scholarly, research, and practical resources available on the identification, classification, nomenclature, and evolution of insects and related arthropods. For both the public and for researchers.
• Neuropterida - a working bibliography of the literature on extant and fossil Neuroptera, Megaloptera, and Raphidioptera (Insecta: Neuropterida) of the world
• Neuropterists Newsletter
• New South Wales Agricultural Scientific Collections - 560,000 specimens. Australia
• New World Army Ants - ongoing revisionary work with the army ants of the new world
• New Zealand Arthropod Collection - 6.5 million specimens. New Zealand and pacific islands fauna
• Nicrophorus Central - for all those whose research involves nicrophorine species (burying beetles) (Coleoptera: Silphidae: Nicrophorinae). Taxonomy, photo gallery.
• Nomina Insecta Nearctica - checklist of the insects of North America. Abbreviated online version of the publication of the same title published by Entomological Information Services in 1996 and 1997 in four volumes and a CD-ROM.
• North American Stonefly List - species found in North America along with their distributions by state and Canadian province
• North Carolina State University Insect Collection - 1.1 million specimens. Emphasis on North Carolina insects and worldwide Homoptera
• Ode News - occasional newsletter about dragonflies and damselflies on Cape Cod
• Odonata - Dragonflies and Damselflies - includes checklists for the U.S. states of Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and Oklahoma
• Odonata Bibliography - based on Roy J. Beckemeyer's odonatological library
• Odonata Central - Searchable county level database to the dragonflies and damselflies of the south central U.S., including maps and photographs. Texas checklist.
• Ohio Odonata Society - promoting knowledge and appreciation of dragonflies and damselflies in Ohio
• Ohio State University Insect Collection - 3.5 million specimens
• Olethreutinae (Lepidoptera: Torticidae) of the Plum Brook NASA Station - photographs of the adult of 58 species along with male genitalia if needed for identification. Ohio, U.S.A.
• Order Phasmatodea - the systematics and morphology of the insect order Phasmatodea
• Oregon State Arthropod Collection - 2.5 million specimens, with global representation. Especially strong in Pacific northwestern taxa
• Orthoptera of the Netherlands - Book, De sprinkhanen en krekels van Nederland (Orthoptera) by Roy Kleukers, Erik van Nieukerken, Baudewijn Odé, Luc Willemse and Walter van Wingerden. Accompanying CD is titled "De zingende sprinkhanen en krekels van de Benelux" [The singing Orthoptera of the Benelux-countries] by Baudewijn Odé Book is 416 p., 14 colour plates, bound, with dust-jacket. ISBN 90-5011-100-9. Publication: 15 may 1997. Price: HFL 82,50 (excl. P&P). Order in writing from: KNNV Uitgeverij, Oudegracht 237, 3511 NK Utrecht, Netherlands. Fax: +31-30-236 89 07
• Orthoptera of the Northern Great Plains - anatomy, key, photos
• Orthoptera Species File Online - taxonomic database of the Orthoptera of the world. Includes full synonymic and taxonomic data as well as type data for all species of Tettigonioidea (katydids, bush-crickets), Grylloidea (crickets), Tridactyloidea (sand crickets), and Tetrigoidea (pygmy grasshoppers).
• Orthoptera Species File Online - taxonomic database of the world's grasshoppers, locusts, katydids and crickets, both living and fossil. Full synonymic and taxonomic information for 23,700 valid species, 39,999 taxonomic names, 145,100 citations to 11,850 references, 44,000 images, 184 sound recordings, 37,980 specimens, and keys to 2,100 taxa.
• Palaeoentomology in Russia - history and the current state of paleoentomology, fossils of insects and arachnids. Catalogues, online publications, reports, personal pages of Russian paleoentomologists, images of insect fossils and localities
• PAUP* - tools for inferring and interpreting phylogenetic trees
• Peabody Museum of Natural History - 900,000 pinned specimens. Yale
• PETALURA - electronic journal of the Specialist Group for Systematic and Phylogenetic Odonatology
• Phasmida Species File Online - taxonomic database of the world's stick and leaf insects, known as walking sticks and walking leaves in the U.S.. Full synonymic and taxonomic information for over 3,400 valid species and over 4,100 taxonomic names (all ranks, valid and not valid). There are over 23,000 citations to references. There are also images for many species.
• Phorid flies - (Diptera: Phoridae) ant-decapitating and bee-killing flies. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.
• Phylogenetic Systematics of Odononata
• Platypus - database package for taxonomists. Windows only
• Preliminary Checklist and Provisional Atlas of the Collembola of the Netherlands
• Primary Type Specimen Database - insect primary types in the collection of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University. Data on more than 28,000 types, representing 29 orders, 565 families, and 7,578 genera of insects. It also includes high quality images of types. Virtually all types of Cerambycidae, Buprestidae, Nymphalidae, Lycaenidae, Pieridae, Tettigoniidae, and a large portion of Formicidae.
• Proctos - newsletter for workers on Proctotrupoidea s. lat.
• Quaternary Entomology Laboratory - fossil insects. North Dakota State University
• Queensland Museum - 500,000 specimens. Special collections of rainforest insects and parasitic wasps. Australia
• Quito Catholic Zoology Museum - 800,000 specimens of Ecuadorian insects. Biology Department, Catholic University of Ecuador
• Richard B. Dominick Moth and Butterfly Collection - University of South Carolina
• Saskatchewan Mayflies (Ephemeroptera)
• Saturnia - Saturniidae and other bombycoid moths. Checklists are under Research link
• Saturniidae of the Western Palaearctic - annotated checklist of the silkmoths of Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia.
• ScaleNet - comprehensive information on the scale insects of the world, including queriable information on their classification, nomenclatural history, distribution, hosts, and literature
• Scarabaeoid Beetles of Wisconsin
• Schmetterlingsfotos auf CD - European Butterflies. Two PhotoCDs. CD 1: Nymphalida, Papilionidae, Pieridae. CD 2: Lycaenidae, Nemeobiidae, Danaidae, Satyridae.
• Senckenberg Natural History Museum - International research institute and museum. Germany
• Sesiidae of Serbia - 48 species from this family, registered in Serbia, representing 45% of species with European distribution
• Severin-McDaniel Insect Research Collection - South Dakota, U.S.A.
• Siberian Zoological Museum of the Institute of Animal Systematics and Ecology - 2 million specimens of more than 15 thousand species mainly from the Palearctic. Largest scientific zoological museum in Siberia
• Slovene Museum of Natural History
• Snow Entomological Research Collection - 4.1 million specimens. University of Kansas Natural History Museum
• Social wasps (Vespidae: Polistinae, Vespinae) of Siberia - A review of social wasps (Vespidae: Polistinae, Vespinae) of Siberia with distribution; from: Far Eastern Entomologist 57: 1-11 (1998) with some additions and corrections
• South Carolina Moths Searchable Checklist
• Sphecos - the newsletter for aculeate wasp researchers (now defunct)
• Sphingidae of the Americas - sphinx moths
• Sphingidae of the Western Palearctic - An annotated checklist of the Sphingidae of the western palaearctic
• Stag Beetles of Taiwan - Images, information, and links about stag beetles (Coleoptera: Lucanidae) and various other beetles of Taiwan
• Stiletto Flies - Describes fly family Therevidae including ongoing research and participants in the research.
• Studia dipterologica - journal of taxonomy, systematics, ecology and faunistics of Diptera
• Swedish Dragonflies - dragonfly photography, folklore, list of Swedish dragonflies, key, rearing information
• Synoptic Timetable of Earth History - with special reference to fossil odonates
• SYRPHIDAE - discussion list for people interested in the taxonomy and all aspects of the biology of hoverflies
• Syrphidae Europe - Hoverflies (Syrphidae) of Europe - photos, range maps, keys. English and Dutch content.
• Syrphidae of Lower Saxony - (Germany) species list, red data list, literature
• Systematic and Applied Acarology Special Publications - rapid publication for papers on mites and ticks
• Systematic Catalog of Culicidae - A compilation of Knight and Stone 1977 with all its supplements
• Systematic entomology on the Rutelini tribe - Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae, Rutelini tribe - summary of the work of Marc Soula (English and French)
• Tachinid Times - annual newsletter for persons interested in research on parasitic flies (Diptera) of the family Tachinidae. This newsletter acts as a forum for informal communication about current projects, recent research findings, field trips, and similar types of information relating to the Tachinidae.
• Tachnid Bibliography - 1980-present, gleaned from The Tachnid Times
• TAXIS - Taxonomic Information System is a database management system for recording specimens, taxa, localities, characters, and images. Some of the features include interactive identification, reports on taxa and collection, printing of labels. Windows only
• Tenebrionidae and allied families - includes synonyms, distribution, type location
• Tenebrionidae of Wisconsin
• Tephritid Worker Database - TWD is a directory of tephritid fruit fly researchers and plant protection officers in the world, providing expertise on species and speciality field, and recent publications, bibliographic references, news, directories, meetings, and projects.
• Termite Database - Taxonomic database of the termites of the world (static version also available)
• Termites of North America and the World - University of Toronto. Wealth of urban entomology information.
• Texas A&M - 1.9 million fully-curated specimens. Species-level holdings records
• Thailand's Amazing Insects - over 1800 photographs of insects from Northern Thailand; audio files of insect sounds; video clips of insects in their natural surroundings; articles on insects in Thailand and Thai culture, the results of a survey on Thai people's attitudes to insects, insects in Thai proverbs, insects on Thai postage stamps
• The Crane Flies (Diptera: Tipulidae) of Pennsylvania
• The Darkling Beetles of Florida and Eastern United States - Contains species checklists, identification keys, species profiles and images, distributions in Florida and eastern U.S., and literature.
• The Earwigs (Dermaptera) of South Africa
• The Insects of Cedar Creek - A photographic taxonomic survey of the insects found at the Cedar Creek Natural History Area, Minnesota. Checklists, name indices, and narrative information on many species.
• The Kansas School Naturalist
• The Snodgrass Tapes - Three audio lectures by Robert E. Snodgrass given in 1960. Transcripts included.
• The Springtails (Collembola) of South Africa
• The Stephanidae Homepage - about Stephanid wasps (Hymenoptera)
• The TIARA Project - Collaborative biological information system for the insects and terrestrial arthropods of the south-central United States and adjacent Mexico. Click on Help for overview.
• The University of Wyoming Insect Museum - 250,000 specimens. Holdings are particularly strong in the major orders Hymenoptera (53%), Diptera (12%),Lepidoptera (10%), and Coleoptera (9%). Insect Gallery, with beautiful insects from around the world on display open to public viewing free of charge
• Tiger Beetle World - information on tiger beetles (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae) of North America (biology, ecology, identification, techniques for study, research library, resources, cicindelophile directory
• Tiger Beetles of Connecticut - taxonomy, ecology and conservation status of Connecticut's 14 Cicindela species. Keys to adults and larvae.
• Tiger Beetles of North Dakota - biology, morphology, checklist and key
• Tortricid.net - photo database of tortricid moths (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae)
• Trichoptera World Checklist - stoneflies of the world
• Trichopteres de France
• Trictenotomidae of the World - includes full bibliography, distribution and another interesting information.
• TYMBAL - the Auchenorrhyncha website. Cicadas, spittlebugs, leafhoppers, treehoppers and planthoppers.
• UKmoths - photographic database of moths in the UK displayed in their natural resting position. About 1500 of the 2400 UK moths are featured
• Uniramous Arthropods Exhibit - at the UC-Berkeley Museum of Paleontology
• Univeristy of Central Florida Collection of Arthropods - aka the Bug Closet. 135,000 specimens. 33% Coleoptera, 45% Hymenoptera.
• University of Arkansas Arthropod Museum - 750,000 specimens focusing especially on Ozark and Ouachita mountains
• University of Colorado Museum - 550,000 specimens. Many from Rocky Mountain region
• University of Connecticut Biological Collections: Insects - fauna of southern New England
• University of Copenhagen - 3 million specimens, emphasizing Europe and worldwide
• University of Georgia Collection of Arthropods - 650,000 specimens. Image galleries of common insects from the southeastern U.S.
• University of Michigan Musem of Zoology, Insect Division - one of the largest university insect collections in North America with 4.5 million specimens. Especially Odonata, Orthoptera, Acari, Coleoptera, and Homoptera
• University of Minnesota Insect Collection - 3.3 million specimens
• University of Nebraska State Museum - 2 million specimens from U.S. Great Plains and worldwide
• University of New Hampshire Insect and Arachnid Collections - 600,000 specimens from northern New England
• University of Queensland Insect Collection - 700,000 specimens. Australia
• University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Virgin Islands Beetle Fauna - query by island, family or specimen
• Volucella - international journal on taxonomy, ecology, and faunistics of palearctic Syrphidae (Diptera)
• Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit - dedicated to mosquito systematics. Systematic catalog of Culicidae, identification resources, mosquito and tick publications.
• Water Mites of South Africa - Checklists, with synonyms, distribution notes or season of activity, depending on the taxon
• Web Images of North American Moth Species - links to images of over 3000 species
• What is a Dragonfly? - A basic introduction to Odonata.
• Wilbur R. Enns Entomology Museum - at the University of Missouri-Columbia. 5.75 million specimens. Many aquatic insects of Ozark streams
• World Catalogue of Scaphidiinae - (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)
• World Chalcidoidea Database on CD-ROM - complete World Catalogue of all 26,000 names used in Chalcidoidea, more than 95,000 host records, over 110,000 distribution records, more than 300 colour images of adults and immature stages of most families, and an immense amount of information on their use in biocontrol, biology, physiology, etc. Windows only.
• World Checklist of Extant Mecoptera Species - including geographic distributions
• World Dipterists - directory of world dipterists
• World List of Extant and Fossil Embiidina - (Embioptera)
• Yellowjackets of the Northwestern United States - Yellowjacket biology, systematics, literature and keys.
• Zoologische Staatssammlung München - Munich, Germany
• ZOOTAXA - rapid international journal for systematic entomologists and zoologists