Full name:

Orthoptera Species File Online

Short name:

OSF

Version:

2.0/3.1, Sep 2007

Release date:

September 14th, 2007

Authors/editors:

DC Eades, D Otte & P Naskrecki

Taxonomic coverage:

Animalia - Arthropoda - Insecta - Orthoptera

Number of species names:

23,048 accepted names; 16,058 synonyms

Number of infraspecies names:

2,543 accepted names; 1,730 synonyms

Number of common names:

1,052

Total number of names:

44,431

Abstract:

The Orthoptera Species File is a taxonomic database of the world's Orthoptera (grasshoppers, locusts, katydids and crickets), both living and fossil. It has full synonymic and taxonomic information for 23,700 valid species, 39,999 taxonomic names, 145,100 citations to 11,850 references, 44,000 images, 184 sound recordings, 37,980 specimens, and keys to 2,100 taxa.

Organization:

The Orthopterists' Society; Illinois Natural History Survey, USA

Web site:

http://Orthoptera.SpeciesFile.org