Fauna Europaea: Neuropterida (Raphidioptera, Megaloptera, Neuroptera)

By

Aspöck, Ulrike
Aspöck, Horst
Letardi, Agostino
De Jong, Yde

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2015-04-17

Original Publication

Biodiversity data journal

Volume

3

Pages

1--22

Subjects

biodiversity informatics , Europe , Fauna Europaea , Megaloptera , Neuroptera , Raphidioptera , Taxonomic indexing , taxonomy

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia Pensoft Publishers [2013]-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.3.e4830
eLocator: e4830

 

Abstract

Fauna Europaea provides a public web-service with an index of scientific names of all living European land and freshwater animals, their geographical distribution at country level (up to the Urals, excluding the Caucasus region), and some additional information. The Fauna Europaea project covers about 230,000 taxonomic names, including 130,000 accepted species and 14,000 accepted subspecies, which is much more than the originally projected number of 100,000 species. This represents a huge effort by more than 400 contributing specialists throughout Europe and is a unique (standard) reference suitable for many users in science, government, industry, nature conservation and education.<br>For Neuropterida, data from three Insect orders (Raphidioptera, Megaloptera, Neuroptera), comprising 15 families and 397 species, are included.