Full name:

Catalogue of Craneflies of the World

Short name:

CCW

Version:

Mar 2008

Release date:

March 15th, 2008

Authors/editors:

P Oosterbroek

Taxonomic coverage:

Animalia - Arthropoda - Insecta - Diptera - Tipuloidea

Number of species names:

14,830 accepted names; 1,455 synonyms

Number of infraspecies names:

1,008 accepted names; 0 synonyms

Number of common names:

0

Total number of names:

17,293

Abstract:

The Catalogue of the Craneflies of the World (CCW) covers all genera, subgenera, species, subspecies, and synonyms of the World Tipuloidea (Insecta – Diptera – Nematocera – families Pediciidae, Limoniidae, Cylindrotomidae, Tipulidae), in total 17,307 taxa. It also includes up to date information on the distribution of the species and subspecies, specified by countries and, for the larger countries, states, provinces, islands.

Organization:

Entomology Section, Zoological Museum, University of Amsterdam / ETI BioInformatics, The Netherlands

Web site:

http://ip30.eti.uva.nl/ccw/