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Dmitrii Musolin, 01.11.2007 6:59

The Lacewing Digital Library project team is pleased to announce the
availability of a new web resource -- the Lacewing Digital Library
(http://lacewing.tamu.edu/index.html) -- dedicated to content about
lacewings, antlions, fishflies, snakeflies and related insects belonging
to the superorder Neuropterida (orders Neuroptera, Megaloptera and
Raphidioptera). A major goal of the Lacewing Digital Library (LDL)
project is to provide a common and convenient point of access to the
growing number of on-line resources featuring information about
neuropterid insects. The initial release of the LDL site announced here
contains two new resources that may be of general interest to the
entomological systematics and collections communities: (1) version 2.00
of the on-line catalogue "Neuropterida Species of the World", and (2)
version 1.00 of the dataset "Neuropterida Species of the World: a
dataset for collection curators".

The "Neuropterida Species of the World"
(http://lacewing.tamu.edu/Species_Catalogue/sctitle.html) is a
searchable on-line catalogue of the neuropterid species-group names of
the world. Information on both extant and fossil taxa are included. The
site contains catalogue record pages for ca. 6900 valid names, 2300
invalid names, and 300 unavailable names, which are made accessible from
a "Simple Search" page that searches a pool of more than 16,400 distinct
combinations of genus- and species-group names. An "Advanced Search"
page permits searching by a variety of non-name criteria.

The new "Neuropterida Species of the World: a dataset for collection
curators" (http://lacewing.tamu.edu/downloads/downloads.html) is a
downloadable dataset that has been designed to provide curators and
collection managers with taxonomic and nomenclatural information on the
world Neuropterida, and to be suitable for uploading into local
collection databases. The dataset is designed to facilitate activities
such as resolving taxonomic and nomenclatural issues, printing header
cards, generating working species checklists and similar collection
curation matters. The dataset is available in Access, Excel, and Word
formats.

Comments and suggestions for additions and improvements to the LDL site
are welcome.

John Oswald
LDL project team leader

(apologies for cross-postings...)

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

E-mail: j-oswald@tamu.edu
Phone: (979) 862-3507
More at: http://insects.tamu.edu/people/faculty/oswaldj.cfm

Bibliography of the Neuropterida: http://entowww.tamu.edu/research/neuropter...otn_search.html
Catalogue of the Neuropterida: http://entowww.tamu.edu/research/neuropter...ins_search.html