Resources

This tool features an insect search engine to help users identify insects quickly and accurately with pestIQ’s simple visual interface.

PestNet is an email network that you can use to obtain rapid advice and information on crop protection, including the identification and management of plant pests.

PaDIL offers high-quality colour diagnostic images and information on pests and diseases along with a number of comparative native species. You can use PaDIL to: view plant pest images to help with making diagnoses; compare plant pest of interest with comparative native species; query datasets and manage image database libraries; assist with use of PaDIL remote microscopy

Brings together key plant health information from across the world, including a useful diagnostic tool and factsheet library to help diagnose and manage plant health problems.

ProMED-mail (the Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases) is an internet-based reporting system dedicated to rapid dissemination of information on outbreaks of infectious diseases and acute exposures to toxins that affect human health, including those in animals and in plants grown for food or animal feed.

This database allows you to search databases of BPI specimens, fungus-host distributions, literature, nomenclature, of the index to Saccardo, or perform a quick search of all the databases.

A publication by the Entomological Society of New Zealand. This Lepidoptera larval identification guide was prepared using invertebrate interception data collected from fresh produce imported into New Zealand covering pre- and post-border interceptions from 1990—2008.

This volume provides a general introduction to the Australian Cerambycidae with sections on biology, phylogeny and morphology of adult and larvae, followed by the keys to the subfamilies and an overview of the 74 genera of the subfamily Lamiinae occurring in Australia. Cost: AU$150

An interactive key for the 312 species of plant pathogenic smut fungi (Ustilaginomycetes) known from Australia. Most grasses, including the economically important cereals, are hosts of smut fungi. Many smut fungi are also found on grasses in rangeland zones, an area of national priority.

An interactive key for the 69 species of plant pathogenic smut fungi (Ustilaginomycetes) known from Thailand. Most grasses, including the economically important cereals, are hosts of smut fungi. Many smut fungi are also found on grasses in rangeland zones, an area of national priority.

The Moths of Japan is a systematic, illustrated list of all moths found in Japan. The webpage is written in Japanese, but the link provided here goes through Google Translate which makes it readable. Useful for identification of Japanese Erebidae: Lymantriinae.

LepIndex is the digitised card index of the Lepidoptera unit of the British Museum of Natural History, London. This database provides comprehensive information regarding the taxonomic histories of all Lepidoptera. If you need to clarify the author and year of description of any Lepidoptera, this is the place you need to visit. The database content is accurate - as one would expect from the British Museum of Natural History - but not always precise. For example, year of publication was found to be inaccurate for a number of Sphingidae.

This database provides an inventory of the diagnostic expertise available in the EPPO region. Its aim is to cover the expertise on regulated pests, pests possibly presenting a risk to EPPO member countries (EPPO Alert List) and plants of the EPPO List of invasive alien plants. This database does not include common pests which are widely distributed in the EPPO region. It includes a section on validation data for diagnostic tests.

This amateur-run website aims to show the adults and larvae of every Lepidoptera in Australia. The website is laid out systematically following the arrangement in the Checklist of the Australian Lepidoptera, and content is adapted from Ian Common's Moths of Australia (1990). Although useful in many instances, this website contains much misinformation and many misidentifications. Photo quality is also variable and sometimes too poor to be useful. This website needs to be used with caution and must never be used without reference to other resources (eg. Common 1990 or the ANIC Lepidoptera unit).

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