[Taxacom] Neuropterida Species of the World (Version 6)

[John Oswald]

For anyone with a special interest in neuropterid insects - orders Neuroptera, Megaloptera, and Raphidioptera - or a need to access basic information on these insects (extant or fossil), the following may be of interest (please pardon crosspostings...):


We are pleased to announce that version 6 of the Neuropterida Species of the World (NSW) catalogue/monograph (http://lacewing.tamu.edu/SpeciesCatalog/Main) was released on 23 March 2018. The new version contains several important upgrades. Most importantly, version six contains a new output page format - the "Monograph Record" page. The original NSW output page format - the "Catalogue Record" page - presents data in blocks that are organized around individual, unique, species-group names. The new Monograph Record pages aggregate NSW data by valid species and subspecies (>7600). Some of the classes of aggregated data that may be of interest to many users include: (1) complete species/subspecies-level synonymical listings for all valid species-group taxa, (2) tabular listings of country-level geographic distributions for each species/subspecies, (3) links to lists of keys that contain each valid species/subspecies as a terminal taxon, and (4) tabular listings of figures in the published literature that pertain to each species/subspecies (with taxonomy/nomenclature updated to present). The "figures" dataset (new for NSW 6) contains >80,000 records for illustrations contained in >3500 journal articles and books. The metadata captured for these figures provide, essentially, a new set of standardized captions for a large proportion of the technical illustrations that have been published to date in the global Neuropterida literature. NSW 6 also incorporates several new interface improvements. These include a more liberal use of icons to provide direct links to PDFs of relevant literature (where available and permissible), and links to corresponding records in the Bibliography of the Neuropterida (for access to full bibliographic details of each work).

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John D. Oswald
Professor of Entomology
Curator, Texas A&M University Insect Collection
Department of Entomology
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX  77843-2475

E-mail: j-oswald at tamu.edu<mailto:j-oswald at tamu.edu>
Phone: 1-979-862-3507

Lacewing Digital Library: http://lacewing.tamu.edu/
Bibliography of the Neuropterida: http://lacewing.tamu.edu/Biblio/Main
Neuropterida Species of the World: http://lacewing.tamu.edu/SpeciesCatalog/Main