WWW RESOURCES


General

Digital Taxonomy Home Page
Southern African Collectors' Biographies.
Colorado State University's Entomology on the WWW.
Iowa State University's Entomology Index of Internet Resources.
AGRICOLA, the catalog of the USDA National Agricultural Library
AGRIS, the FAO agricultural journal article database
BIOSIS Taxonomy & Nomenclature Resources.
Gordon Ramel's Entomology Page. An excellent introduction for laymen and students.
South African collecting permits.

Biodiversity

The Convention on Biodiversity
Conservation International's world rankings for total biological diversity
Conservation International's list of biodiversity hotspots
The South African Museum's Biodiversity Explorer
The Biosphere Data Project
BIOSIS Biodiversity Resources
NRF Sustainable Environment site

Biogeography

MapQuest On-line Atlas
Make a Map Draw your own maps of anywhere
FUZZY GAZETTEER (FUZZYG), a free Web based tool for locating misspelled place names all around the world
Defense Mapping Agency GEOnet Names Server (an international gazetteer)
USGS Mapping Information: Geographic Names Information System (GNIS; US gazetteer)
Animated Maps of Continental Drift
GAP Analysis Homepage

Systematics

The International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (4th Ed.)
World Directory of Systematic Entomologists
ETI's World Taxonomist Database
Biodiversity and Biological Collections WWW Server
International Codens for Entomological Collections
International Codens for Ich and Herp Collections
The DELTA Home Page
Willi Hennig Society
Systematic Biology
Biodiversity and Biological Collections
Systematics Servers

Phylogenetics

Phylogenetics Resources
BIOSIS Taxonomy & Nomenclature Resources. Links to organizations, publications, software, collections, meetings and phylogenetic resources.
The Tree of Life - insect phylogeny and much else.
National Center for Biotechnological Information (e.g. Genbank)

Nomenclature

New Entomological Taxa. A useful way to keep up to date with new taxa.
TRITON: Taxonomy Resource & Index To Organism Names
BIOSIS Taxonomy & Nomenclature Resources. Links to organizations, publications, software, collections, meetings and phylogenetic resources.
BIOSIS Biosystematics & Life Sciences Resources. An excellent search engine, produced by the publisher of Biological Abstracts and Zoological Record.
The International Code of Zoological Nomenclature.

This part of A Catalogue of South African Insects revised: