Useful online resources

Use this page to suggest useful ID resources for PSL identification. Feel free to annotate!

[Richard Comont's really useful website! Should have known someone would have done this already: http://insectrambles.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/web-id-resources.html]

Freshwater Shrimps and Isopods
http://www.fba.org.uk/sites/default/files/InvasiveFWShrimps&Isopods_Dec2012.pdf

Slugs
http://www.field-studies-council.org/fieldstudies/documents/vol5.5_156_a.pdf

Worms
http://www.opalexplorenature.org/?q=Earthwormguide

Collembola
http://www.collembola.org/key/fknl.pdf (Dutch key, not known how comprehensive for UK)

Hymenoptera
http://www.bwars.com/

Hemiptera
http://www.britishbugs.org.uk/index.html
Scale-insects http://www.bnhs.co.uk/focuson/scales/html/index.htm


Psocoptera
http://www.brc.ac.uk/schemes/barkfly/homepage.htm

Plants:http://www.botanicalkeys.co.uk/flora/content/SEARCH.ASP


Mosses/Liverworts:http://www.bbsfieldguide.org.uk/content/general-field-key


Or better just download the PDF direct:
http://www.bbsfieldguide.org.uk/sites/default/files/pdfs/otherpdfs/%20BBS%20Field%20Guide%20Field%20Key.pdf

And the Sphagnum part:

http://www.bbsfieldguide.org.uk/sites/default/files/pdfs/otherpdfs/BBS%20Field%20Guide%20Sphagnum%20Key.pdf

4 comments:

  1. Not sure how useful this dutch key is in a UK context but successfully keyed Tomocerus minor from it just now:
    http://www.collembola.org/key/fknl.pdf

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  2. I had started a similar list draft for my own blog but Richard Comont put together an incredibly good list of online resources recently that eclipsed almost everything I'd put together:

    http://insectrambles.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/web-id-resources.html

    The few bits I'd add to the list at that site are:

    HEMIPTERA

    http://www.ledra.co.uk - The Auchenorrhyncha recording scheme. Features a key to the families of hoppers plus information on new additions to the British fauna.

    http://www.hetnews.org.uk/ - A sporadic web publication. Well worth reading. Occasionally has keys to groups currently poorly described by the other standing literature. (For example: Key to species of Nysius in Autumn ’03 edition or key to Anthocoris)

    Tristan Bantock's Hemiptera flickr set:
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/tristanba/tags/hemiptera/


    COLEOPTERA

    Mark Telfer’s site (http://markgtelfer.co.uk/) is my normal go-to when I’m IDing beetles as it’ll help point out where current keys are a bit broken and what’s been added to the UK fauna since. He’s pretty much re-written entire keys in some cases. Thanks Mark!

    http://www.coleopterist.org.uk/ (listed on Comont's page but doesn't mention the seriously useful checklist of British beetles)

    http://www.koleopterologie.de – Seems to have solidly ID’d photos but can’t vouch for it entirely.

    Chrysomelidae
    http://www.biol.uni.wroc.pl/cassidae/European%20Chrysomelidae/index.htm - a great source of reliably ID'd leaf beetles but a superset of what can be found in the UK. Refer to the British checklist!

    Carabidae
    John Walter's (and Mark Telfer's) carabid sheets: http://johnwalters.co.uk/publications/guide-to-british-beetles.php#4

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  3. Found good page for tick identification - http://webpages.lincoln.ac.uk/fruedisueli/FR-webpages/parasitology/Ticks/TIK/tick-key/index.htm

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  4. Spiders

    http://srs.britishspiders.org.uk/portal.php/p/A-Z+Species+Index
    Excellent for checking distribution, phenology, habitat - though note how poorly recorded spiders are in general, hopefully everyone in this blog will post at least a common garden spider record from their square to the scheme...

    Useful photo and ID sites
    http://www.araneae.unibe.ch/?lang=en
    http://www.jumping-spiders.com/index.php
    http://www.eurospiders.com/

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