FSU: World Orthoptera Species File (Part 1): The North American Grasshoppers

自然科学院正在开发一个世界直形昆虫物种（蟑螂、蚱蜢、蝈蝈、螳螂、洞蟋蟀等）的综合计算机数据库。现存物种和化石物种都将被包括在内。目前，该档案包括21,000多个物种和133,000个文献记录。更大的目标是建立一个全球性的、以分类学为导向的多媒体（文本、图形、声音）计算机数据库，帮助分类学家和其他生物学家了解在他们的地区有哪些分类群，如何识别它们，以及它们的生态作用。对于必须与大量分散的文献作斗争的系统学家和昆虫收藏管理人员来说，它将特别有价值。目前的项目将重点关注北美蚱蜢。这个群体一直是首席研究员Daniel Otte博士出版的两本书的主题-北美蚱蜢。第一卷和第二卷由美国国家科学基金会资助。在这项工作中收集的数据将成为出版该丛书第3卷和第4卷的基础。卷3将包括经济上重要的黑蝗亚家族。

A comprehensive computer database to the world's orthopteroid insect species (cockroaches, grasshoppers, katydids, mantids, cave crickets, etc.) is being developed at the Academy of Natural Sciences. Both living and fossil species will be included. Presently the file includes over 21,000 species and 133,000 literature records. The larger goal, of which this project is the first part, is to produce a global, taxonomically oriented, multimedia (text, graphics, sound) computer database which will aid taxonomists and other biologists who wish to know which taxa occur in their regions, how to identify them, and what their ecological role is. It will be especially valuable to systematists and managers of insect collections who must struggle with a large and scattered literature. The present project will focus on the North American grasshoppers. This group has been the subject of two books published by the principal investigator, Dr. Daniel Otte - The North American Grasshoppers. Volumes I and II were funded by NSF. The data assembled in this work will be the foundation for the publishing of volumes 3 and 4 of the series. Volume 3 will include the economically important subfamily of Melanoplinae grasshoppers.