Biological Survey of Canada (Terrestrial Arthropods)

The Biological Survey of Canada (Terrestrial Arthropods) helps to coordinate scientific research among specialists on the Canadian fauna of insects, mites, and their relatives.

This web site describes the Survey and provides various resources for work on the Canadian insect fauna, including on-line publications and databases.

The Survey synthesizes knowledge and ideas, focuses available expertise on to topics that are particularly significant, and acts as a clearing-house for information. It thereby serves as a catalyst for more efficient scientific progress and provides national direction for work on Canada's insect fauna.

What's New

Arthropods of Canadian Forests

Volume 4 of Arthropods of Canadian Forests has been published.

(January 5, 2009)

Editor's Notebook (CJAI)
has been added to the Canadian Journal of Arthropod Identification. Read Steve Marshall's first entry entitled "The Canadian Journal of Arthropod Identification and cost-effective identification of North American arthropods".

(October 31, 2008)

Heptageniidae of the World: Part II
The newest issue of the Canadian Journal of Arthopod Identification has been published.

(October 30, 2008)

Newsletter of the Biological Survey of Canada
The Fall 2008 issue (Vol. 27, No.2) has been posted on the Newsletters page.

(October 16, 2008)

Canadian Journal of Arthropod Identification
The Instructions to Authors have been revised. Notably:
- A template and simple instructions for making an interactive key using PowerPoint has been developed.
- Descriptions of new taxa are now accepted.

Please refer to the CJAI Instructions to Authors for instructions to the above and other updates.

(June 19, 2008)

Canadian Locality Database
A database of common and historical collecting data has been posted here.

(April 17, 2008)

The Bee Flies (Diptera: Bombyliidae) of Ontario, with a Key to the Species of Eastern Canada
The newest issue of the Canadian Journal of Arthopod Identification has been published. In this issue, illustrated dichotomous keys to the 73 bee fly species of 25 genera occurring in or adjacent to eastern Canada are presented. Thirty-two of these species represent new or previously unrecognized records for Ontario. The authors review the distributions of these species in Ontario, focusing on rarely collected and habitat-restricted species, and summarize host use when known.

(March 7, 2008)

For further information about the Biological Survey, please contact:

Secretariat
Biological Survey of Canada (Terrestrial Arthropods)
Canadian Museum of Nature
P.O. Box 3443, Station "D", Ottawa, Ontario K1P 6P4 Canada
bsc@mus-nature.ca

This page last updated 01/05/09