Key Introduction

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

The key allows 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 key 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