Biodiversity Information Projects of the World

2001 Systematic Catalog of Culicidae

Project Website

http://www.mosquitocatalog.org/main.asp

Project Description

This "publication" is the next, now fourth iteration of the mosquito systematic catalog. It is a compilation of Knight and Stone 1977 with all its supplements which built upon Stone, Knight and Starke 1959 and all of its supplements.



The personal computer and internet now permit the inclusion of many more citations and allows for the linking of the citations to electronic copies of the original literature, something that did not exist in 1977. Another advantage of computerization is that the catalog is no longer set in stone or type to be obsolete the day it was printed. It has now becomes a continuous "work in progress". This project began about five years ago and will never be finished, only more current than any of the previous printed versions of the catalog could ever be. When we put this catalog online in January of 2001, we believed it to be current to that time. It was with respect to the species described but we have since discovered that much distribution information was overlooked in the years since 1977. We are endeavoring to correct this but must alert users to the fact that species are probably more widespread than the catalog distributions indicate. A companion to this catalog is the "Reference Database" which contain in addition to the literature cited in the 1977 catalog and its supplement many additional papers from the reprint files of the Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit. A soon-to-be-added feature of the Reference Database will be the ability to do "Full text searches" of all the included

Contact

Tom Gaffigan
Unknown
Smithsonian

Project Type

Data Aggregator

Project Language

English

Project Start Date

01-Feb-2001

Key Inputs

Data from publications and reviews

Key Infrastructure

Web site, publications

Key Technologies

ASP

Key Processes

Unknown

Geographic Scope

Global - Global

Taxonomic Scope

Family - Culicidae

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Record Status

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