Orthoptera Species File online (http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/)

CIGLIANO, M. M.; EADES, D.C.

Kunming

Workshop; 11th International Congress of Orthopterology; 2013

The Orthopterists´Society

The Orthoptera Species File (http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/) is a taxonomic database of the world's Orthoptera (grasshoppers, locusts, katydids and crickets), both living and fossil. It has full synonymic and taxonomic information for more than 25,960 valid species, 43,090 scientific names, 179,300 citations to 12,400 references, 75,400 images, 480 sound recordings, 86,000 specimen records, and keys to 2,870 taxa. Since the inception of OSF its strength and value to the taxonomic community has been the combination of the complete coverage of synonyms and taxonomic literature for all taxa within it, the addition of digital images of type specimens, as well as interactive keys, sound recordings, and maps. The workshop will be focused not only on the basic features of the Public read only interface showing the Information and contents on the database and the different types of search; but also on some basic features of the Editing interface (adding images, specimens, changes related to the rank and status of a taxon name); and on the way that the program prevents changes that conflict with the rules of nomenclature. Besides, the potential of using the OSF as a tool for monograph and revisionary studies of Orthoptera will be presented in this workshop, as a way of integrating many of the most recent cybertaxonomic tools with species descriptions.