Name and Nomenclature Resources

Scientific Names and Nomenclatural Resources

Fauna Europaea – http://www.faunaeur.org

Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) – http://www.gbif.org/

Index to Organism Names – http://www.biosis.org.uk/ion/search.htm

Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) – http://www.itis.usda.gov/index.html

International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) – http://www.iczn.org

iSpecies – http://darwin.zoology.gla.ac.uk/~rpage/ispecies/

National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) – http://www.nbii.gov

Nomenclator Zoologicus – http://uio.mbl.edu/NomenclatorZoologicus/

Roots and Combining Forms for Classical Names -http://www.phthiraptera.org/Roots/Classic_frame.html

Sherborn's Index Animalium - http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/indexanimalium/

Species 2000 – http://www.sp2000.org/

Universal Biological Indexer and Organizer (uBIO) – http://www.ubio.org/

Taxon Specific Databases

BioSystematic Database of World Diptera (BDWD) – http://www.sel.barc.usda.gov/Diptera/biosys.htm

Chyrsis.net – http://www.chrysis.net/index_en.php

Iowa State Entomology Index of Internet Resources:  Taxon Databases – http://www.ent.iastate.edu/list/directory/120/vid/4

Japanese Ant Image Database – http://ant.edb.miyakyo-u.ac.jp/E/index.html

Orthoptera Species File Online – http://osf2x.orthoptera.org/osf2.2/OSF2X2Frameset.htm

ScaleNet – http://www.sel.barc.usda.gov/scalenet/scalenet.htm

Universal Chalcidoidea Database -
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/projects/chalcidoids/

Whitefly Taxonomic and Ecological Website  - http://www.sel.barc.usda.gov:591/1WF/whitefly_catalog.htm

Thysanoptera (Thrips) of the World – A Checklist:  http://www.ento.csiro.au/thysanoptera/worldthrips.html

Common names

CSIRO Handbook of Australian Insect Names – http://www.ento.csiro.au/aicn/

Common Names of Canadian Insects – http://esc-sec.org/menu.htm

ESA Database of Common Names – http://www.entsoc.org/pubs/common_names/