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Fauna europaea: neuropterida (raphidioptera, megaloptera, neuroptera)
Ulrike Aspöck1, Horst Aspöck2, Agostino Letardi3
1Natural History Museum Vienna, 2nd Zoological Department, Burgring 7, 1010, Vienna, Austria.
Abstract:
Fauna Europaea provides a public web-service with an index of scientific names of all living European land and freshwater animals, their geographical distribution at country level (up to the Urals, excluding the Caucasus region), and some additional information. The Fauna Europaea project covers about 230,000 taxonomic names, including 130,000 accepted species and 14,000 accepted subspecies, which is much more than the originally projected number of 100,000 species. This represents a huge effort by more than 400 contributing specialists throughout Europe and is a unique (standard) reference suitable for many users in science, government, industry, nature conservation and education. For Neuropterida, data from three Insect orders (Raphidioptera, Megaloptera, Neuroptera), comprising 15 families and 397 species, are included.

