ID Resource Resource Finder
The ID Resource Finder is an online searchable catalogue of UK wildlife identification resources. A key feature is that this catalogue is crowd-sourced, all you have to do is create an account to add/edit the resources.
If you spot anything missing, any broken links or mistakes then please jump in and add/fix it. Or let the team know about issue via email: [email protected].
Displaying 1 - 50 of 152.| Title | Description | Author(s) | Free | Availability | |
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| A key to the British species of family Buprestidae (Coleoptera) | The British species of Buprestidae are very few and are mostly restricted to the South East of Britain. | Mike | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| A key to the families of British Coleoptera (beetles) and Strepsiptera | This AIDGAP identification key will help non-specialists to identify all families of British beetles - of which there ar | Unwin | No | Publication | View Edit |
| A Photo Key to Great Diving Beetles | It is generally known that Great Diving Beetles are some of our largest freshwater insects and most naturalists | Adrian Chalkley | Yes | View Edit | |
| Atlas of the Predaceous Water Beetles (Hydradephaga) of Britain and Ireland | This atlas concerns the predaceous water beetles, or Hydradephaga – the whirligig beetles (Gyrinidae), the crawling wate | Foster, Bilton & Nelson | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Beetle fauna of Germany | An amazingly rich website containing superb photos of a huge range of beetle species. | Benisch, C. | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Beetle News | A collection of newsletters available as PDFs most of which include an identification article for a group of beetles. | Amateur Entomologists' Society | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| Bostrichidae Key to British Species | Bostrichidae Key to British Species by Mike Hackston, derived from the German key by Arved Lompe. | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| British leafminers | From the homepage: "This site is the result of an on-going project, set up to photograph and record all the leaf mi | leafmines.co.uk | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| British Scraptiidae | RES Handbook vol 5 part 18. | Levey | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Coleoptera family keys | Updated web address for individual beetle families. | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Coleoptera: Clambidae | RES Handbook vol 4 part 6a. The family Clambidae is represented in Britain by two genera: Clambus and Calyptomerus. | Johnson | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae (Broad-nosed weevils) | RES Handbook vol 5 part 17a. | Morris | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Coleoptera: Kateretidae & Nitudulidae: Meligethinae (Pollen beetles) | RES Handbook vol 5 part 6a. | Kirk-Spriggs | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Elateridae of the British Isles | From the website homepage: "The Elateridae, or Click Beetles as they are commonly known, are a family within the Co | J. Wallace | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Guide to British Dung Beetles: GEOTRUPIDAE (Dor beetles) | PDF linked from webpage with extra information: https://dungbeetlemap.wordpress.com/dung-beetles/geotrupidae/ The Geotr | Ceri Watkins, Dung Beetle UK Mapping Project | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| Guide to British Dung Beetles: ONTHOPHAGUS | PDF linked from webpage with extra information: https://dungbeetlemap.wordpress.com/dung-beetles/onthophagus/ Picture g | Ceri Watkins, Dung Beetle UK Mapping Project | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| Guide to ladybirds of the British Isles | Produced in conjunction with the UK Ladybird Survey, this popular fold-out chart to ladybird identification covers 26 of | Majerus et al. | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Guides to British Beetles | John Walters free downloadable guides to a growing selection of British Beetles | John Walters and Mark Telfer | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| Identification of Freshwater Invertebrates to Species Level: | A distance learning course from FBA and EA. Currently not running as a tutor lead course, but downloading of th | Various mainly Richard Chadd | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| Identifying beetles | The stated aims of Mark Telfer's Beetles website are: provide ‘cribs’ to supplement, clarify, correct and up-date e | Mark Telfer | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Identikit Beetle Families | A prototype multi-access digital identification key covering 102 beetle families known to occur in Britain and Ireland. | Stephen Docker | Yes | Online, App | View Edit |
| Intro to Ladybird Larvae ID | This is one of FSC BioLinks informal virtual meet ups (VMUs) on Zoom which we've started doing in response to the C | Helen Roy and Peter Brown | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| iRecord Ladybirds | The Centre for Ecology and Hydrology and the Nature Locator team have joined forces to help map species of ladybird with | Natural Apptitude Ltd. | Yes | App | View Edit |
| Key for the identification of British Anthribidae | A family of weevils with only ten British species, one of them only found in domestic situations and now very rare due t | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Key for the identification of British Attelabidae | Two species of this family are found in Britain, with the larvae feeding in rolled-up leaves of various species of trees | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Key for the identification of British Biphyllidae | A key to the two British species is found below. Both are associated with fungi on dry deciduous wood. | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Key for the identification of British Bostrichidae | There are only five species of this family of wood-boring beetles occurring in Britain. | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Key for the identification of British Bothrideridae | A small family in the British fauna, containing species variously classified in the past. | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Key for the identification of British Buprestidae | The British species of Buprestidae are very few and are mostly restricted to the SE of Britain. | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Key for the identification of British Byrrhidae | 13 species in 7 genera occur in Britain according to Duff's checklist (2012). | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Key for the identification of British Byturidae | A family containing just two species in Britain, one of which is common and widespread through Britain. | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Key for the identification of British Cerambycidae | According to Duff's checklist of British Coleoptera there are 67 species of Cerambycidae (longhorn beetles) which a | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Key for the identification of British Cerylonidae | There are five British species of this family listed in the latest checklist, from two genera. | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Key for the identification of British Ciidae | There are 22 species from 7 genera listed in the latest British checklist. 15 of these belong to genus Cis. | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Key for the identification of British Clambidae | A small family in the British fauna, comprising ten species in two genera, genus Calyptomerus and Clambus. | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Key for the identification of British Colydiidae | This is a small family of twelve species of mostly wood-boring beetles. | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Key for the identification of British Cucujidae | A family with only two species in Britain, the more common Pediacus dermestoides and the more local Pediacus depressus. | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Key for the identification of British Dasytidae | The current checklist has 9 species in 4 genera from two subfamilies in Britain. | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Key for the identification of British Dermestidae | The current checklist has 40 species in this family on the British list from six subfamilies and thirteen genera. | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Key for the identification of British Dryophthoridae | Four species are known from Britain from this family of weevils. | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Key for the identification of British Dryopidae | Friday (1988) stated that the separation of these species depends on the form of the genitalia | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Key for the identification of British Dytiscidae | The Dytiscidae are a group of water beetles with a good number of species in Britain. | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Key for the identification of British Elmidae | The 12 species of Elmidae found in Britain are classified in 8 genera. | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Key for the identification of British Elmidae | 'The 12 species of Elmidae found in Britain are classified in 8 genera. | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| Key for the identification of British Endomychidae | A small family in Britain with nine species from five genera. | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Key for the identification of British Erotylidae | The 2012 edition of the Checklist of Beetles of the British Isles lists eight species from four genera. | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Key for the identification of British Geotrupidae | A key to the British species of family Geotrupidae, revised to include Odonteus armiger which was formerly placed in a s | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Key for the identification of British Gyrinidae | The whirligig beetles are familiar to anybody who has had more than a cursory look at still or slow-moving water during | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Key for the identification of British Haliplidae | 19 species of this aquatic family are found in Britain. | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Key for the identification of British Heteroceridae | The British members of this family number eight from two genera. | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
