Useful web resources that we think will interest you.
(Updated January, 2021)
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Orthoptera & Other Polyneoptera
Orthoptera (grasshoppers, crickets, katydids, and more!)
Orthoptera Species File Online – a web-based taxonomic database of the world’s Orthoptera (grasshoppers, locusts, katydids and crickets), both living and fossil.
Orthoptera of Europe – A checklist and photos of European Orthoptera.
Orthoptera of the Southeastern U.S.A. – A good guide for a specific, interesting region of the U.S.A. compiled by JoVonn Hill.
Orthoptera on the Tree of Life – phylogenetic position of Orthoptera, characteristics of major clades and a lot of useful references.
Singing Insects of North America (SINA) – A comprehensive resource for anyone interested in the crickets and katydids of the U.S. and Canada, which treats 395 species, including distribution maps, songs, and photographs. Created and maintained by Thomas J. Walker.
SALTABEL – The Orthoptera research group of the Benelux.
Deutschen Gesellschaft für Orthopterologie – The German Orthopterological Society.
Turkish Orthoptera Site – Checklists of Turkish and Cyprian Orthoptera compiled by Mustafa Ünal.
Dermaptera (earwigs)
Earwig Research Centre – A site dedicated to research on Dermaptera maintained by Fabian Haas that includes a database of earwigs of the world, thousands of photographs of type specimens and live insects, and lots of useful literature.
General information on Dermaptera (mainly for the U.S.A.) created by Family Handyman
Blattodea (cockroaches)
Cockroach Facts – A site dedicated to exactly what it says by Andrew Martin and his daughter.
Grylloblattodea (ice/rock crawlers)
Grylloblattodea on the Tree of Life – phylogenetic position of Orthoptera, characteristics of major clades and a lot of useful references.
Mantodea (praying mantids)
Mantodea Species File Online – a web-based taxonomic database of the world’s Mantodea (praying mantids).
Phasmida (stick and leaf insects)
Phasmida Species File Online – a web-based taxonomic database of the world’s Phasmida (stick and leaf insects).
Phasmida on the Tree of Life – phylogenetic position of Orthoptera, characteristics of major clades and a lot of useful references.
General Polyneoptera
Checklist of Michigan Orthopteroids – A comprehensive checklist compiled by curatorial staff at the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, U.S.A.
Checklist of the Orthopteroid orders of Oklahoma – A comprehensive checklist compiled by curatorial staff at Oklahoma State University, U.S.A.
Orthoptera & Allied Insects – Grasshoppers and related insects recording scheme of Britain and Ireland.
Taxa Sites That Are More Focused
Tettigonioidea (katydids, long-horned grasshoppers, bush-crickets)
Mormon Crickets (Anabrus simplex) (Tettogoniidae) – For information, see USDA links below.
Acridomorpha (grasshoppers and locusts)
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA): Rangeland Grasshopper and Mormon Cricket Suppression Program and the S&T Phoenix Lab’s Rangeland Grasshopper and Mormon Cricket Management Team in Arizona, U.S.A. – Both work together towards improving management of outbreaks of grasshoppers (Acrididae) and Mormon crickets (Tettigoniidae) in the rangeland habitats of the 17 contiguous western states of the U.S.A. For more information, contact the S&T Phoenix Lab’s Team Leader, Derek A. Woller.
Grasshoppers of Wyoming and the West – A comprehensive source of information on grasshoppers found in Wyoming and other western states of the U.S.A. by the late Robert E. Pfadt and many otherrs.
Global Locust Initiative – An initiative dedicated to connecting people in locust research and management to develop research, partnerships, and solutions for transboundary pest management in agroecosystems around the world; based at Arizona State University, U.S.A.
Plague locust (Les criquets ravageurs) – A site of the “Locust ecology and control” research unit of the Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement (CIRAD) with general information on locust and grasshoppers (in French).
Locust literature – Located at CIRAD.
Locust@Cirad – Locust ecology and management research at CIRAD, Montpellier, France
Information on the desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria) – maintained by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
Information on locusts in the Caucasus and Central Asia – maintained by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
Acrididae of West Africa – Catalogue and atlas of West African grasshoppers (in French) by Jacques MESTRE et Joëlle CHIFFAUD.
Acridomorph (Orthoptera) species of Argentina and Uruguay – by Carlos S. Carbonell, María Marta Cigliano, and Carlos E. Lange
Orthopterists’ Sites
Hojun Song,
Song Laboratory of Insect Systematics and Evolution
Piotr Naskrecki,
The Smaller Majority
David C.F. Rentz,
Flickr Photos,
Blog
General Entomology
BugGuide – A good resource for identification of North American insects.