Key Introduction

These digital pathway keys to insects found in rice provides online help to identify specimens in rice insect collections. This is the first comprehensive, set of digital keys to rice insect pests and their natural enemies on a global basis.

The keys allow you to identify, to the species level, rice insect pests and their natural enemies in 12 orders and to identify species in the spider order, Araneae. The keys contains illustrations for 758 species of insects and insect natural enemies, and 129 spider species associated with rice agroecosystems. This is complemented by a series of glossaries for all 11 insect orders and the spider order - Araneae

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coleoptera key
dermaptera key
diptera key
hemiptera key
hymenoptera key
isoptera key
lepidoptera key
neuroptera key
odonata key
orthoptera key
spiders key
strepsiptera key
thysenoptera key