Full name:

COOL: Cercopoidea Organised On Line

Short name:

COOL

Version:

3, Jul 2008

Release date:

July 4th, 2008

Authors/editors:

A Soulier-Perkins

Taxonomic coverage:

Animalia - Arthropoda - Insecta - Hemiptera - superfamily Cercopoidea

Number of species names:

2,316 accepted names; 1,688 synonyms

Number of infraspecies names:

0 accepted names; 0 synonyms

Number of common names:

0

Total number of names:

4,004

Abstract:

COOL is a taxonomic database on the Cercopoidea (froghoppers, or spittlebugs). Its purpose is to gather and organise available knowledge on the froghoppers and to provide easy access to the information to any interested person. At the moment it is based upon the Metcalf Catalogue (1960-1962) for the families Cercopidae, Machaerotidae, Clastopteridae and Aphrophoridae. The information on Epipygidae have been taken from the publication of Hamilton (2001).

Organization:

Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France

Web site:

http://rameau.snv.jussieu.fr/cool/