Katydid CD ROM

[Piotr Naskrecki]

"An Illustrated Catalog of Orthoptera" - a CD ROM for Macintosh and
Windows

It is our pleasure to notify you that a CD ROM "An Illustrated Catalog of
Orthoptera. Vol. I. Tettigonioidea (Katydids or bush-crickets)" is now
available. This CD contains a complete taxonomic and synonymic database
of all species of Tettigonioidea of the world described until 1998. In
addition to such data as full synonymy, bibliographic references, type
locality and type depositories, this unique CD includes nearly 7,000 high
quality color images of specimens, mostly of  actual types, photographed
in major museum collections in Europe, North America and Australia. The
taxonomic database has been designed in such a way that even users with
little or no previous computer experience will find it easy to use,
without sacrificing any of the power and flexibility of its fully
relational design.

WHO IS IT FOR?
Although designed primarily for entomologists interested in orthopteroid
insects, this CD ROM is also an indispensable tool for insect collection
managers and curators. It provides a quick way to find currently accepted
names of katydids or bush-crickets as well as synonyms and literature
references for these insects in your collection. In addition, thousands
of images in the database will help you identify your specimens. A
label-making capabilities will also allow you to effortlessly print pin
or tray labels for species and genera of Tettigonioidea.
But you don't need to be a professional entomologist or a collection
curator to find the "Catalog" useful. Casual naturalists all over the
world can use it to find out what species of bush-crickets have been
described from their country or region, find information on references
describing their local species in detail or simply browse the images and
learn about the amazing variety of life-forms of katydids.


ORDERING THE CD ROM
The "Illustrated Catalog of Orthoptera" has been published by the
Orthopterists' Society at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
(ISBN 1-929014-00-7). To order, please send a check (drawn on an American
bank) or money order to:

Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
Department of Entomology, attn.: Daniel Otte
1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway
Philadelphia, PA 19103-1195, USA

PRICING
Regular price   USD $95
Members of the Orthopterists' Society   USD $75
Students*   USD $55
 *) students must provide a photocopy of a valid student identification
document

Please visit our web site for more information:
http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/cd

Sincerely,
Piotr Naskrecki and Daniel Otte
(Please forgive if you received this message more than once)

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Piotr Naskrecki
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of Connecticut, Storrs CT 06269, USA

e-mail: pin93001 at uconnvm.uconn.edu

An Illustrated Catalog of Orthoptera (http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/cd) -
a database of the Orthoptera of the World on a CD ROM

Orthoptera Species File Online (http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/Orthoptera)
- a database of the Orthoptera of the World Online

Katydids of La Selva Biological Station Costa Rica
(http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/interkey/titlepg)

Taxonomy and Collection Manager software
(http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/interkey/database.html)