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].
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Key for the identification of British species of Erirhinidae | The species of this family are weevils and were formerly treated as a subfamily of Curculionidae. | No | 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 | |
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 |
Beetle fauna of Germany | An amazingly rich website containing superb photos of a huge range of beetle species. | Benisch, C. | Yes | Online | View Edit |
RES Handbook Vol 5 Part 1b. Coleoptera. Buprestidae | The family Buprestidae is a large one, containing over 15,000 described species. | Brian Levey | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
Ladybird larvae | Ladybird larvae are often found, but not well known, as they look so different from adult ladybirds. | Brown et al. | No | Publication | View Edit |
RES Handbook Vol 4 Part 8a. Coleoptera. Staphylinidae. Section (a) Piestinae to Euaesthetinae | THE family Staphylinidae contains in the British Isles about 950 species, that is to say about one-quarter of the total | C. E. Tottenham | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
RES Handbook Vol 4 Part 2. Coleoptera. Carabidae | THE family Carabidae is here treated in its widest sense, that, is including also the Tiger-beetles which have often bee | Carl H. Lindroth | 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 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 |
RES Handbook Vol 4 Part 10. Coleoptera. Histeroidea | THE Superfamily Histeroidea includes three families, Sphaeritidae, Syntellidae and Histeridae. | D. G. H. Halstead | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
RES Handbook Vol 5 Part 15. Coleoptera. Scolytidae and Platypodidae | "BARK beetles* are of major economic importance and world-wide distribution. | E. A. J. Duffy | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
RES Handbook Vol 5 Part 12. Coleoptera. Cerambycidae | THE family Cerambycidae, members of which are popularly known as "Longhorns," is of world-wide distribution an | E. A. J. Duffy | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
RES Handbook Vol 5 Part 11 ed1. Coleoptera. Scarabaeoidea (lucanidae, Trogidae, Geotrupidae, Scarabaeidae) | THE superfamily Scarabaeoidea, also known as the Lamellicornia, includes some of the most striking beetles in the Britis | E. B. Britton | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
RES handbook Vol 4 Part 9. Coleoptera (Pselaphidae) | This is the first "booklet" ever published dealing exclusively with the British Pselaphidae. | E. J. Pearce | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
RES Handbook Vol 5 Part 3. Adults and Larvae of Hide, Larder and Carpet Beetles and their relatives (Coloptera: Dermestidiae) and of Derodontid Beetles (Coleoptera: Derodontidae). Main text | The family Dermestidae contains over 1000 species in about 50 genera and is represented in every zoogeographical region | E. R. Peacock | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
RES Handbook Vol 5 Part 5a. Coleoptera. Rhizophagidae | The family Rhizophagidae (Superfamily Cucujoidea) comprises four subfamilies (Crowson, 1955), two of which are represent | Enid R. Peacock | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
RES Handbook Vol 4 Part 3. Coleoptera. Hydradephaga | This might be described as an abstract of British Water Beetles published by the Ray Society in 1940 and 1950 as most of | F. Balfour-Browne | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
RES Handbook Vol 5 Part 9. Coleoptera | THE families herein dealt with are not in themselves a complete family series but form part of the Heteromera (Cucujoide | F. D. Buck | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
Key to adults of the water beetles of Britain and Ireland (Part 1) | RES handbook vol 4 part 5 (2nd edition). | Foster & Friday | No | Publication | View Edit |
Keys to adults of the water beetles of Britain and Ireland (Part 2) | RES Handbook vol 4 Part 5b. | Foster, Bilton & Friday | No | Publication | 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 |
Ladybirds | This revised and updated edition of Ladybirds provides a succinct but comprehensive and accessible overview of the biolo | Helen E Roy, Peter MJ Brown, Richard F Comont, Remy L Poland, John J Sloggett, Sophie Allington, Chris Shields | No | Publication | 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 |
Seed and leaf beetles | This AIDGAP identification guide covers the adults of the Chrysomelidae, Orsodacnidae and Megalopodidae. | Hubble | 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 |
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 |
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: Kateretidae & Nitudulidae: Meligethinae (Pollen beetles) | RES Handbook vol 5 part 6a. | Kirk-Spriggs | No | Publication | View Edit |
RES Handbook Vol 5 Part 11. Dung Beetles & chafers - Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea | The superfamily Scarabaeoidea forms a clear-cut natural group within Coleoptera that has been recognized since the earli | L. Jessop | 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 |
The Staphylinidae (rove beetles) of Britain and Ireland (Part 5) | RES handbook vol 12 part 5. | Lott | No | Publication | View Edit |
The Staphylinidae (rove beetles) of Britain and Ireland (Parts 7 and 8) | RES handbook vol 12 parts 7 and 8. | Lott & Anderson | No | Publication | View Edit |
The Carabidae (ground beetles) of Britain and Ireland | RES Handbook vol 4 part 2. | Luff | No | Publication | View Edit |
RES Handbook Vol 5 Part 10. Coleoptera - Tenebrionidae | THE single family covered by this handbook belongs to that part of the Heteromera (Cucujoidea, section ii of Crowson, 19 | M. J. D. Brendell | 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 |
Weevil Guides | These are draft guides to genera or species groups of weevils. | Mark Gurney | 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 |
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 |
Key for the identification of British Leiodidae | A total of 93 species in 20 genera and four subfamilies are on the latest British checklist. | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
Key for the identification of British Kateretidae | The nine British species of this family belong to three genera. | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
Key for the identification of British Laemophloeidae | Twelve species from this family are on the British list. | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
Key for the identification of British Lampyridae | These are the so-called glow-worms. We have three species reported from Britain. | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
Key for the identification of British Latridiidae | The current checklist includes 56 species in 13 genera and 2 subfamilies. | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
Key for the identification of British Lymexylidae | Two species of this family are present in Britain, associated with dead and dying trees. | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
Key for the identification of British Melandryidae | This family contains 17 species on the British list, classified in ten genera and two subfamilies. | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
Key for the identification of British Megalopodidae | A small family with only three British species, closely related to the Chrysomelidae, differing in the tooth on each sid | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
Key for the identification of British Malachiidae | The current check list has 17 species in 11 genera. | 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 |