Insect Collections at the Illinois Natural History Survey

The insect collection at the Survey now houses over 6,000,000 curated specimens. The growth and wide-ranging scope of this collection can be credited to the diverse interests of the systematists who have spent all or part of their career at the Survey. The INHS insect collection is one of the largest in North America. The heavy concentration of specimens from the last third of the 1800s also makes this one of North America's oldest insect and related arthropod collections.

Ecological Database of the World's Insect Pathogens

The Ecological Database of the World's Insect Pathogens (EDWIP) offers information on fungi, viruses, protozoa, mollicutes, nematodes, and bacteria* that are infectious in insects, mites, and related arthropods. Data in EDWIP include associations (or lack thereof) between pathogenic organisms and insect, mite, and other arthropod hosts. EDWIP also includes information on where associations have been observed, stages and tissues of hosts infected, and habitats and host ranges of the arthropod hosts. Association and nonassociation data in EDWIP are supported by bibliographic citations. All areas of the database are searchable.

Viral Diseases of Insects in the Literature (VIDIL)

This is a database of viral diseases of insects, but not of the viruses themselves. It was established in 1970 and consists of published host records. This database includes almost all literature published up to 1984, including the 733 references contained in the review articles by Hughes (1957) and Martignoni and Langston (1960). Many of the reports that he collected during development of this database were deposited in a special collection at the Centennial Library of the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.

Soybean Insects Bibliographic Database

SIRIC was established in 1969 to compile the world literature of arthropods associated with soybeans and to produce a database of that literature. The Center has published bibliographies on soybean entomology, and served growers, researchers, and institutions around the world.

International Soybean Arthropod Database (ISAC)

Begun in 1970, the International Soybean Arthropod Collection (ISAC) currently comprises nearly 300,000 arthropod specimens in various stages of curation. Extensive as well as intensive arthropod surveys of all the major soybean growing regions of the United States were undertaken in the early to mid 1970's. That material serves as the backbone of the collection. In addition, the collection contains arthropods from over 40 other countries, with extensive holdings from Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, Peru, Philippines, South Africa, South Korea, and Thailand.

Therevidae (Diptera) in Mandala

MANDALA is a suite of 26 (currently, see history and metadata) cross-platform database files (=tables) in FileMakerª Pro 5.x that enables the user to catalog information about specimens, taxonomic names and their history, and literature associated with organisms. Its name means interconnectedness and interrelatedness. The data detailing nearly 100,000 specimens of a family of flies called stiletto flies or Therevidae, are searchable here, as well as a history of the family's nomenclature and literature pertaining to the group.