Biological Databases & Search Engines

Araneae

• Nearctic Spider Database

Aquatic

• Odonata Central - John Abbott - UT
  • Odonata Central Google Maps Distribution Viewer
• Ephemeroptera specimen collection database - INHS
• Mayflies of Texas, County lists - USGS
• Plecoptera specimen collection database - INHS
• Stoneflies of Texas, County lists - USGS
• Trichoptera specimen collection database - INHS

Orthoptera

• Orthoptera Species File Online - The Orthopterists' Society

Lepidoptera

Texas

• Butterfly and Moth County Lists - NBII
• TX-Butterfly Listserv archives - University of Houston

US

• California Moth Specimen Database - compiled by Kelly Richers
• Notes on the Butterflies of North Carolina
• South Carolina Moth Database - John Snyder
• Species Search - Butterflies and Moths of North America

Western Hemisphere

• Butterflies & Moths of Guanacaste, Costa Rica - Janzen and Hallwachs
• Season Summary - Lepidopterists' Society

World

• All-Leps:: Barcode of Life
• Caterpillar Hostplant Database - The Natural History Museum, London
• The Global Lepidoptera Names Index - The Natural History Museum, London
• Journal of The Lepidopterists' Society
• Lepidoptera - Markku Savela
• Leps-L - Yale, Peabody Museum

Coleoptera

• Cerambycidae Search - Photographic Catalog of the Cerambycidae of the New World
• Coleopterists Bulletin Bibliography - The Coleopterists Society
• California Beetle Project Bibliography - Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
• Coleoptera - University of New Hampshire Insect Collection
• Cerambycidae Holotypes of the Smithsonian Institution
• Leaf Beetles - (alticines, cassidines, aulacoscelidines, & chlamisines) National Museum of Natural History
• Tiger Beetles of Texas, County lists - USGS
• Western Hemisphere Carabids - Smithsonian

All Entomological Taxa

• TIARA Biodiversity Project - TAMU
• BugGuide - Iowa State University Entomology
  • Advanced Search
• Woody Ornamental Plants and their Insect Pests - TAMU
• INRAM Biodiversity searchable database - specimens from 21 different New Mexico collections
• Biota Information System of New Mexico (BISON-M)
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
• NatureServe Explorer
• Entomo-L Mailing List Archives
• Biodiversity Database of the Washington, D.C., Area - Georgetown Univ. Lab. of Entomology and Biodiversity
• Museum of Comparative Zoology Type Database - Harvard
• NCSU Insect Collection Species Inventory Database - North Carolina St. Univ.
• Caribbean Insect & Plant Database - Harvard
• New England Guide to Household Pests - Harvard

Botanical

Texas

• Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Texas - TAMU

• Digital Flora Of Texas Herbarium Specimen Browser - Includes mapping option - TAMU
• Flora of Texas Database - Plant Resources Center
• Native Plant Database - Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
• Native Plants of South Texas - TAMU
• Texas Native Shrubs - Benny Simpson
• Texas Plant Information Database - TPWD
• Vascular Plant Image Gallery - Texas A&M Bioinformatics Working Group 

USA

• Flora of North America
• NatureServe Explorer
• USDA Plants Database - USDA

International

• Caribbean Insect & Plant Database - Harvard
• Caterpillar Hostplant Database - The Natural History Museum, London
• Caterpillar Food Plants of Guanacaste, Costa Rica - Janzen and Hallwachs
• International Legume Database & Information Service (ILDIS)
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI)
• W³TROPICOS - Missouri Botanical Garden - Includes mapping option
• All Databases - Missouri Botanical Garden

Journals

• Coleopterists Bulletin Bibliography - The Coleopterists Society
• Florida Entomologist - Search v.1: no. 1 (1917 ) to present
• Journal of The Lepidopterists' Society
• Google Scholar - Advanced 

Books

• Botanicus Digital Library - Missouri Botanical Garden

• California Beetle Project Bibliography - Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History

• Google Print - About Google Book Search - Advanced Book Search 

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  • Early North American Butterfly & Moth Books

  • Early Entomological Books

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Taxonomic Specialists

• World Taxonomist Database

Photographic and Image

Entomological

• Butterflies & Moths of Guanacaste, Costa Rica - Janzen and Hallwachs

• Papilionidae of the World: a pictorial summary

• TIARA Biodiversity Project - Select "Images" link in left column

Botanical

• Native Plants of South Texas - TAMU

• Vascular Plant Image Gallery - Texas A&M Bioinformatics Working Group

Misc.

• Google Image Search

General

• Google

• Wayback Machine - Internet Archive

• Wikipedia

News

• Google Advanced News Search  

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Texana

• The Handbook of Texas Online

25 Aug 2007 © Mike Quinn  mike.quinn@tpwd.state.tx.us / Texas Entomology