Full name:

Neuropterida Species of the World

Short name:

LDL Neuropterida

Version:

Sep 2007

Release date:

September 25th, 2007

Authors/editors:

JD Oswald

Taxonomic coverage:

Animalia – Arthropoda – Insecta – Neuroptera, Megaloptera, Raphidioptera

Number of species names:

6,256 accepted names; 7,473 synonyms

Number of infraspecies names:

123 accepted names; 796 synonyms

Number of common names:

0

Total number of names:

14,648

Abstract:

The Neuropterida Species of the World catalogue documents fundamental taxonomic, nomenclatural and distributional information on extant and extinct neuropterid species on a global scale. The catalogue is a primary component of the Lacewing Digital Library (LDL) web portal (http://lacewing.tamu.edu/). The Catalogue of Life dataset is restricted to a taxonomic checklist of extant species. For more complete information on all neuropterid names/taxa, including considerable additional documentation from the primary scientific literature, search the on-line version of the catalogue at http://lacewing.tamu.edu/Species-Catalogue/scspeciescatalogue.cfm.

Organization:

Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University, Texas, USA

Web site:

http://lacewing.tamu.edu/Species-Catalogue/index.html