Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Genus Periplaneta


Great Smoky Mountains National Park Checklists
Checklists for that park on a variety of organisms. Several lists of invertebrates, including Arachnids, some beetle families. Some checklists incomplete as of this writing (March, 2004).

Common Names of Insects & Related Organisms
Amercian Entomological Society has, apparently, their whole list of common names on-line. You can search the Common Names Database, or download a PDF document with Phylum, Class, Order, and Family names. There are about 2,100 names in the database as of March, 2004. There is an on-line procedure for proposing new common names. (Link corrected 4/23/2006.)

Doing a few tests, I found that the database does not include many common names in widespread use by North American insect watchers. For instance, there are only three common names listed for Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies). There are only seven common names listed for members of the brushfoot butterfly family (Nymphalidae).

CalPhotos: Animals
Thousands of photos of animals, including many insects and other invertebrates.

University of Florida: Featured Creatures

BioQuip Products

eNature.com: Insects and Spiders

Australian Museum Online: Invertebrate Zoology

Wikipedia: Arthropod