Full name:

Orthoptera Species File Online

Short name:

OSF

Version:

2.0/3.4, Oct 2008

Release date:

October 15th, 2008

Authors/editors:

DC Eades & D Otte

Taxonomic coverage:

Animalia - Arthropoda - Insecta - Orthoptera

Number of species names:

23,606 accepted names; 16,949 synonyms

Number of infraspecies names:

2,563 accepted names; 1,826 synonyms

Number of common names:

1,247

Total number of names:

46,191

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 more than 24,309 valid species, 40,910 scientific names, 153,615 citations to 12,160 references, 55,598 images, 186 sound recordings, 40,095 specimens, and keys to 2,604 taxa.

Organization:

The Orthopterists' Society; Illinois Natural History Survey, USA

Web site:

http://Orthoptera.SpeciesFile.org