A Catalogue of the Insects of South Africa

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Originator: Martin H. Villet, Rhodes University

Publication_Date: January 1, 2000

Title: A Catalogue of the Insects of South Africa

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Publication_Place: Grahamstown, South Africa

Publisher: Rhodes University

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Online_Linkage: http://www.ru.ac.za/zoologyandentomology/

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The aims of this web site are to catalogue the insect biodiversity of South(ern) Africa, particularly in terms of agreements like the Convention on Biodiversity; to provide a channel of communication between experts and the wider public; to provide a "shop window" for professional Southern African systematic entomology; to encourage participation by everyone holding expertise in the systematics, biogeography and biodiversity of Southern African insects. This web site started life as a checklist of the aquatic insects of South Africa, spurred on by the encouragement and active participation of people such as Ferdy de Moor, Helen Barber-James, Arthur Harrison, Tanza Clarke, Tessa Hedge, Jason Londt, Sarah Gess, Fred Gess, Penny Greenslade, Mervyn Mansell, Ian Millar, Mike Stiller, Mary Jean Gabriel, Hamish Robertson, Marc De Meyer, Jeff Skevington, Mihaly F?ldv?ri, and Edward Vanden Berghe and the example set by the Transvaal Museum's on-line catalogue of the Biodiversity of South Africa. Major developments flowed from the encouragement by the Institute for Water Quality Studies and the Water Research Comission, and the site has evolved to include reference material, links to other specialist web sites, and pictures of many of the animals. In time it may even incorporate keys too. We are particularly grateful to the South African Museum and the Institute for Water Quality Studies, Department of Water Affairs and Forestry, for providing photographs of some of the insects. Links to other sites dealing with the biology of specific insect groups are being added to the appropriate pages. If you have anything that you would like to contribute, please drop us an e-message. You are welcome to make links to any page(s) in this site, and to make regularly updated mirror sites, but please do not copy or redistribute material from this Web site because the copies will not be kept up to date. Copyright of each page in this site is held by its author. Information was obtained from http://www.ru.ac.za/zoologyandentomology/

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Beginning_Date: 20000101

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Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES > ARTHROPODS > HEXAPODS > INSECTS

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES > ARTHROPODS

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > COMMUNITY DYNAMICS > BIODIVERSITY FUNCTIONS

Theme_Keyword: Fauna

Theme_Keyword: Flora

Theme_Keyword: Insect Taxonomy

Theme_Keyword: Protura

Theme_Keyword: Collembola

Theme_Keyword: Diplura

Theme_Keyword: Thysanura

Theme_Keyword: Archeognatha

Theme_Keyword: Ephemeroptera

Theme_Keyword: Odonata

Theme_Keyword: Blattodea

Theme_Keyword: Mantodea

Theme_Keyword: Isoptera

Theme_Keyword: Plecoptera

Theme_Keyword: Orthoptera

Theme_Keyword: Dermaptera

Theme_Keyword: Hemimerina

Theme_Keyword: Embiidina

Theme_Keyword: Plasmida

Theme_Keyword: Psocoptera

Theme_Keyword: Phthiraptera

Theme_Keyword: Hemiptera

Theme_Keyword: Thysanoptera

Theme_Keyword: Coleoptera

Theme_Keyword: Neuroptera

Theme_Keyword: Megaloptera

Theme_Keyword: Mecoptera

Theme_Keyword: Siphonaptera

Theme_Keyword: Diptera

Theme_Keyword: Trichoptera

Theme_Keyword: Lepidoptera

Theme_Keyword: Hymenoptera

Theme_Keyword: South Africa

Theme_Keyword: BIOTA

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Place_Keyword: CONTINENT > AFRICA > SOUTHERN AFRICA > SOUTH AFRICA

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Contact_Person: MARTIN VILLET

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Address: Rhodes University

Address: Department of Zoology and Entomology

State_or_Province: GRAHAMSTOWN

Postal_Code: 6140

Country: SOUTH AFRICA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: +27 [0]46 603 8527

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: +27 [0]46 622 4377

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: M.Villet@ru.ac.za

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Metadata_Date: 20020626

Metadata_Review_Date: 20121212

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Contact_Person: SCOTT A. RITZ

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Address: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Address: Global Change Master Directory

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