World Catalog of Orthopteroid Insects: A Multimedia Guide to the Species

9870226 OTTE分类学为所有关于生物多样性的讨论提供了核心知识基础。目前，只有最肤浅的种类的清单和监测是可能的，因为已知的物种相对较少(据估计，地球上尚未描述的物种不到13%)，而且关于已命名的物种的知识很难从文献中获得。目前还没有175万个已知物种的全面目录，其中90%的描述物种从未被纳入生物群的区域账户、鉴定手册或现代专著中。在这个项目中，我们将为科学界提供一个完整的互联网可访问的目录，包括所有大约40,000种直翅类昆虫(一种重要的经济昆虫，包括蝗虫、蟋蟀、螳螂和蟑螂)(http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/Orthoptera/).该网站构成了世界上所有物种和亚种的完整和充分引用的同义词目录。它包括图片辅助工具和特定物种的声音，以帮助识别，很快它将包含容易跟随图片键进入主要群体的内容。它将对任何希望从地球上任何地方确定这一种群中的任何物种的人都有用，对那些从事生物多样性调查和监测的人尤其有用。任何能够上网的人都有可能进入世界上最大的博物馆，查看原始文献中的模式标本、样本和诊断图像，并听取他们的声音档案中的样本。

9870226 Otte Taxonomy provides the core knowledge-base on which all discussion of biological diversity hinges. Currently only the most superficial kinds of inventories and monitoring are possible because relatively few species are known (it is estimated that less than 13% of the species on Earth have yet been described), and because knowledge on those that have been named is so difficult to obtain from the literature. There is no comprehensive catalog of the 1.75 million known species, and 90% of the described species have never been included in regional accounts of biotas, or in identification manuals or modern monographs. In this project we will provide the scientific community with a complete internet-accessible catalog to all of the approximately 40,000 species of orthopteroid insects (an economically important group of insects that includes grasshoppers, crickets, mantids, and cockroaches) (http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/Orthoptera/). The website constitutes a complete and fully referenced synonymic catalog to all species and subspecies of the world. It includes pictorial aids and species-specific sounds to aid in identification, and it will soon contain easy to follow pictorial keys to the major groups. It will be useful to anyone wishing to determine any species in this assemblage from anywhere on earth, and will be especially useful to those engaged in biodiversity surveys and monitoring. It will be possible for anyone with access to the web to reach into the world's great museums to view type specimens, exemplars, and diagnostic images from the original literature, and to listen to samples from their sound archives.