Online Identification Tools

This page contains links to websites that can be useful for identifying certain taxonomic groups of insects. These tools are given as suggestions and cannot be considered validated by this EURL. This page is updated regularly.

INSECTA

PaDIL - High quality images and Information tools designed for Biosecurity and Biodiversity
Insect Images - easily accessible archive of high quality images
ITP Identification Technology Program - Advanced taxonomic training videos
The leaf and stem mines of British flies and other insects (Coleoptera, Diptera, Hymenoptera and Lepidoptera)
British leafminers: Coleoptera, Diptera, Hymenoptera and Lepidoptera
Galerie du Monde des insectes

Coleoptera

Beetles of the World - Lucid keys
Coleotteri Scarabeoidei d'Italia - Scarab beetles of Italy, with keys
Hawaiian Scarab ID - Scarab and Stag Beetles of Hawaii and the Pacific
Southeast Asian Ambrosia Beetle ID - Molecular and morphological identification of Southeast Asian xyleborine beetles
An Identification Tool for Bark beetles of the Southeastern United States
LONGICORN ID - Tool for diagnosing Cerambycoid families, subfamilies and tribes
Galerie du Monde des insectes - Coleoptera
Diabrotica ID - Lucid keys
Key to the world species of Ips (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) - Lucid key
Xyleborini ambrosia beetle - identification tool to the world genera

DIptera

Q-Tephrikey, an interactive tool for the identification of quarantine fruit fly pests in European Union. Draft version
Fruit Fly Identification Australia
Delta-Intkey - Pest fruit flies of the world (adults)
Dacini from Asia, Australasia, and Oceania (adult)
Anastrepha and Toxotrypana: descriptions, illustrations, and interactive keys
A set of multi-entry identification keys to African frugivorous flies (Diptera, Tephritidae)
Delta-Intkey - Pest fruit flies of the world (larvae)
Polyphagous Agromyzid Leafminers
True Fruit Flies (Diptera Tephritidae) of the Afrotropical Region
Galerie du Monde des insectes - Diptera
DrawWing

Hemiptera Auchenorrhyncha

World Auchenorrhyncha Database
FLOW - Fulgoromorpha Lists On the Web
COOL - Cercopoidea Organised On Line - taxonomic database dedicated to the insects Cercopoidea
Sharpshooter Leafhoppers of the World

Hemiptera Heteroptera

Corisa - A tool for the scientific identification of bugs (Heteroptera)
Coreoidea Species File Online - taxonomic and other information about all the leatherbugs of the world
Lygaeoidea Species File - taxonomic and other information about all the seed bugs of the world
Lace bugs database - A database of all the species described in Tingidae family with references, distribution and pictures
TingID - Identification of lace bugs intercepted at U.S. ports of entry

Hemiptera Sternorrhyncha

Aphids on the world's plants - Online identification and information guide
Aphid Species File - taxonomic, nomenclatural, and bibliographic database of the aphids of the world
ScaleNet - a tool for finding information about scale insects
Scale Insects - Identification Tool for Species of Quarantine Significance
Australian Soft Scale (Coccidae) Genera
Key to Commonly Intercepted Armored Scales (Diaspididae)
Diaspididae of the World - an illustrated identification guide and information source
Psyl'list- an online database dedicated to Psylloidea
Pictorial key for the identification of the Central European psyllids of the genus Cacopsylla which develop on Rosaceae
WHITEFLY PUPA OF THE WORLD - Compendium and key to the Genera of the Aleurodicinae & the Aleyrodinae
Taxonomic checklist of the world’s whiteflies (Insecta: Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae)

Lepidoptera

LepIntercept - American tool for identification of frequently intercepted Lepidoptera
MothDissection - Images of British and European Lepidoptera preparations
North America Lepidoptera Genitalia Library
British Lepidoptera
Lepidoptera Mundi - Select your Country!
Lepiforum - Identification of Lepidoptera and their preimaginal stages
Microlepidoptera on Solanaceae
TortAI - Tortricidae of Agricultural Importance in the US
Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae
The caterpillar key - interactive key for identifying families of Lepidoptera larvae
Galerie du Monde des insectes - Lepidoptera
Oreina - Artemisiae - Lépidoptères de France
BubuLeps - genitalia preparations
AfroMoths - online database of the Afrotropical moth species
Tortricid.net

Thysanoptera

ThripsWiki - Providing information on the World's thrips
OzThrips - Thysanoptera in Australia
PaDIL - Thysanoptera
Thrips of New Zealand
Thrips of California
Identification and information tools for thrips in East Africa
Thysanoptera Chinensis - Thripidae Genera from China
Thysanoptera Britannica et Hibernica - Thrips of the British Isles
Thrips of Brazil
Thrips-iD

ACARI

Flat mites of the world - keys, images, fact sheets
Spider Mites Web (Acari: Tetranychidae) - nomenclature, host-plants, distribution
Electronic polytomous key to species of phytoseiidae of agronomic importance