A few days ago I finished compiling a large checklist to all known (and some unknown) isopods in North America north of Mexico. It also includes Bermuda, most of the Bahamas (sans Mayaguana and the Inaguas since those started getting too close to other regions biotically to include without adding to…

Would be cool if someone could add those to iNat lists of states!

I wonder if there is something like this for beetles or insects in North America…?

There probably isn’t, but one could be made! I’m wrapped up in the isopod guide and other stuff but you can use the format I used for making checklists for other groups too

I have found that checklists are of limited use in the absence of keys. As in, I know which species are likely to be in a given area; but I don’t know how to tell which one I am observing.

No worries! I’m working on copying down descriptions into one mega-document and making keys for everything since all of the literature is scattered all over the place. I’m only on the first family out of around 100 or so families (granted it’s the hell that’s Asellidae but still), but at the rate I’…

Hi, this looks fantastic and I encourage you to publish it somewhere or otherwise make it widely available. Some place like this?: https://checklist.pensoft.net/ It deserves to be accessible, and cited by scientists. Someone commented that it;s not much use without a key. However, these sorts of l…

There are so many insect species that this is rather daunting, and there are so many undescribed species. There was a list done in 1996, called Nomina Insecta Nearctica (Poole 1996), but with zero distribution info beyond “North America”. But such a list of names is the first step - a list of all va…

Thanks! The checklist still needs some improvements (including any species I could have missed), but once I’m done I defintiely plan on publishing it. I’m also slowly working on a checklist and guide to all isopods globally, but that might take a decade or so of work to complete.

Thanks! I fixed the misspelling, it should be correct now

Checklist to Isopods of North America

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jnstuart August 17, 2021, 2:34pm 10

I saw one typo in your checklist in reference to Socorro Isopod – https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/5274530 – I think the common name and location were misspelled.

Really nice checklist.

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