Table 4.
A compilation of online taxonomic tools and resources available for use by the Culicoides worker.
| Name | Description | Available from |
|---|---|---|
| Armed Forces Pest Management Board Literature Retrieval System | An extensive online collection of scientific papers relevant to pathogen vectors including many older and out-of-print journal articles, reports and book sections | http://www.afpmb.org/content/welcome-literature-retrieval-system/ |
| AVAbase (Arthropod Vector of Interest for Animal Health Database) | A multilingual online database of information of arthropod vectors of medical and veterinary importance maintained by Cirad | http://avabase.cirad.fr/ |
| Culicoides.net | A resource maintained by The Pirbright Institute, aims to collate and update information on Culicoides species recorded in northern and western Europe and other areas with ongoing collaborations | http://www.culicoides.net |
| DrawWing | A free software package for the description and illustration of insect wings, the associate website also hosts a gallery of wing images for various genera | http://www.drawwing.org/ |
| FLYTREE | Official project webpage of the NSF Assembling the Tree of Life Project EF-0334948 Building the Dipteran Tree of Life: Cooperative Research in Phylogenetic & Bioinformatics of True Flies (Insecta: Diptera), checklists of Ceratopogonid taxa and Culicoides subgeneric affiliations | http://wwx.inhs.illinois.edu/research/flytree/ |
| IIKC | An interactive identification key for female Culicoides (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from the West Palaearctic region (Mathieu et al., 2012) | http://www.iikculicoides.net/ |
| India Bluetongue Vector Network | Official project website of the India Bluetongue Vector Network (IBVNet), hosts standardised protocols for the production of matched morphological voucher specimens and COI Barcode data for Culicoides | http://www.ibvnet.com |
| The Ceratopogonidae Information Exchange (CIE) | A bi-annual newsletter and website hosted by Belmont University providing a directory of Ceratopogonid Workers, brief articles and links to recently published literature of relevance to the Ceratopogonidae fauna | http://campus.belmont.edu/cienews/cie.html/ |
| The Dipterists Forum | A website and forum affiliated to the British Entomological and Natural History Society (BENHS) hosting a photo gallery and copies/links to literature of relevance to the Diptera fauna. | http://www.dipteristsforum.org.uk/ |
| VectorBase | Bioinformatics resource for invertebrate vectors of human pathogens | https://www.vectorbase.org/ |