Full name:

BioSystematic Database of World Diptera

Short name:

BDWD

Version:

7.0, Jan 2005

Release date:

January 18th, 2005

Authors/editors:

FC Thompson

Taxonomic coverage:

Animalia - Arthropoda - Insecta - Diptera

Number of species names:

131,152 accepted names; 9,600 synonyms

Number of infraspecies names:

0 accepted names; 0 synonyms

Number of common names:

0

Total number of names:

140,752

Abstract:

The Biosystematics Database of World Diptera (BDWD) provides a comprehensive portal to knowledge about dipterans as well as a framework to organize and integrate future data and knowledge. More than 150,000 species of Diptera have been described under >250,000 names. We have only begun to properly document these names, and we will undoubtedly discover many more. The BDWD provides a synonymic checklist to enable the user to find the correct name for each dipteran. A species database and web-portal are also available along with full documentation at the Diptera website.

Organization:

USDA Systematic Entomology Laboratory, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, USA

Web site:

http://www.diptera.org