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 101 - 150 of 152.
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Description | Author(s) | Free | Availability | |
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| Keys for the identification of British Carabidae | The ground beetles are well represented in the British fauna with 362 species from 87 genera in the 2012 list edited by | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Keys for the identification of British Chrysomelidae | Keys to genera and species of British leaf beetles | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Keys for the identification of British Cryptophagidae | This is a family with a good representation in the British fauna. | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Keys for the identification of British Curculionidae | A large family in the British fauna, well covered by Handbooks to the Identification of British Insects by Morris. Th | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Keys for the identification of British Elateridae | This family contains a number of species which are quite similar to one another. | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Keys for the identification of British Helophoridae | The members of this family occurring in Britain all belong to genus Helophorus and most occur in water. | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Keys for the identification of British Hydrophilidae | This is a family well-represented in the British fauna with 18 genera and 70 species. | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Keys for the identification of British Nitidulidae (the pollen beetles) | Subfamilies Carpophilinae (3 genera, 31 species) Meligethinae (2 genera, 37 species) Nitidulinae (7 gener | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Keys for the identification of British Ptiliidae | Tiny beetles of variable shape. | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Keys for the identification of British Scarabaeidae | This family includes the dung beetles and flower chafers. | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Keys for the identification of British Staphylinidae | This is the largest family of beetles in the UK and includes over 1000 species. | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | 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 |
| Keys to the British genera and species of Anthicidae (flower beetles) | The Anthicidae are a family of beetles that resemble ants. | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | 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 |
| 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 |
| Ladybirds (Coccinellidae) of Britain and Ireland | This atlas describes the distribution of ladybirds in Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands, using d | Roy, Brown, Frost & Poland | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Longhorn Beetles Identification Chart | Covering 42 British species, the Longhorn Beetles Identification Chart is the first popular guide for many years to thes | Wil j. Heeney; Katy Potts; Richard Lewington | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Pdf key to British Silphidae | There are only 21 species recorded from the UK and most of these are reasonably large in size, making identification a l | Silphidae recording Scheme | Yes | View Edit | |
| RES Handbook Vol 4 Part 1. Coleoptera, Introduction and keys to families | THE Coleoptera of the British Islands have been treated in a series of comprehensive works, the most important of which | R. A. Crowson | 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 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 |
| 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 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 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 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 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 1b. Coleoptera. Buprestidae | The family Buprestidae is a large one, containing over 15,000 described species. | Brian Levey | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| RES Handbook Vol 5 Part 2c. Coleoptera - Heteroceridae | THE family Heteroceridae is represented in Britain by a single genus, Heterocerus Fabricius, containing eight species. | R. O. S. Clarke | 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 5 Part 5b. Coleoptera. Phalacridae | THE family Phalacridae comprises a considerable number of genera and species and is represented in almost all parts of t | R. T. Thompson | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| RES Handbook Vol 5 Part 7. Coleoptera - Coccinellidae & Sphindidae | THE World fauna of Coccinellidae includes over 3000 known species, of which only 42 occur in the British Isles. | R. D. Pope | 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 |
| Seed and leaf beetles | This AIDGAP identification guide covers the adults of the Chrysomelidae, Orsodacnidae and Megalopodidae. | Hubble | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Shropshire Weevils associated with conifers | PDF photo guide to some of the more frequently encountered weevils of Shropshire. | P Boardman | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| Shropshire Weevils associated with deadwood, fungi, and rotting timbers | PDF photo guide to some of the more frequently encountered weevils of Shropshire. | P Boardman | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| Shropshire Weevils associated with elms and oaks | PDF photo guide to some of the more frequently encountered weevils of Shropshire. | P Boardman | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| Shropshire weevils associated with rosaceous trees and shrubs | PDF photo guide to some of the more frequently encountered weevils of Shropshire. | P Boardman | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| Shropshire Weevils associated with Sycamore, Beech, Alder, Birch and Hazel | PDF photo guide to some of the more frequently encountered weevils of Shropshire. | P Boardman | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| Steven Falk's Flickr Collections for Coleoptera | A collection of photographs for UK beetles. | Steven Falk | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| The Carabidae (ground beetles) of Britain and Ireland | RES Handbook vol 4 part 2. | Luff | 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 |
| True weevils (part 1) Coleoptera: Curculionidae | RES Handbook vol 5 part 17b. | Morris | No | Publication | View Edit |
| True Weevils (part 2) Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Ceutorhynchinae | RES handbook vol 5 part 17c. | Morris | No | Publication | View Edit |
| True Weevils (Part III) | RES Handbook Vol 5 Part 17d. This Handbook is the third, and final, part covering the 'true weevils'. | Morris | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Water Beetle adults and larvae | A dichotomous key - in FRENCH - but very useable for adult and larvae of water beetles | Phillipe Richoux | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
