Citation
Nomenclatural information
Geographical information
Host plants
Bibliography


How to cite / Publication

Preferred format:
Alain MIGEON, Elodie NOUGUIER, Franck DORKELD (2011) Spider Mites Web: a comprehensive database for the Tetranychidae. Trends in Acarology: 557-560.

Alain MIGEON and Franck DORKELD (current year) Spider Mites Web: a comprehensive database for the Tetranychidae. Available from https://www1.montpellier.inrae.fr/CBGP/spmweb (Accessed DD/MM/YYYY)

Nomenclatural information

When building such a database, the most difficult is to model nomenclatural and taxonomic information. We have chosen to use the valid species as output for all queries. This constitutes the taxonomic base. For each of these species, nomenclatural information is available. To describe this nomenclatural information, we have assigned a status to each nomenclatural publication. These statuses are derived from the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature.

Valid species status:

  • Valid name: the name use for taxonomical information
  • Valid nomenclatural act: the publication of a valid name
  • Valid name in invalid publication: the publication of a valid name
  • Change of status: a change to subsepcies to species...
  • New combination: change of generic assignment
  • Emendation: a justified change in the original spelling
  • Replacement name: a new name for a valid taxon with an invalid name

    • Synonyms status:

  • Synonym description: the publication of a junior synonym
  • Reinstatement: a name considered as junior synonym and now valid species
  • Synonymy by: reference for a synonymising work

    • Miscellaneous status:

  • Homonym: an already used valid name
  • Unjustified emendation: an unjustified change in the original spelling
  • Misspelling: a valid citation with an erroneous spelling
  • Misidentification: an erroneous citation
  • Corrected identification: a correction of above

    • Geographical information

    The geographical information is organized at three scales. Countries constitute the smaller one. Russia is divided into Western Russia, including European and Caucasian Russia and Eastern Russia (east of the Urals) and China is divided into Palaearctic zone and oriental zone; but you can search on the whole country. For old records without accurate information, we have kept the former Yugoslavia. Alaska and Hawaii are ont included into USA.
    Continents constitute the second scale. Note that Russia is also in Europe and in Asia.
    Biogeographical regions are the last scale

    Our data input is in accordance with the Taxonomic Database Working Group (TDWG) recommendations.

    The use of the distribution maps is simple and intuitive. Two scales of information are available: the country scale and the TDWG level 4 (the smallest entities) scale. The areas with records are indicated in red. You can zoom on a preselected area or use the button to choose the zoom scale. Default view is full map. The background for displaying distribution can be chosen with the list.
    The distribution maps (example with Tetranychus urticae Koch) were developped using Leaflet (see Leaflet).

    Disclaimer
    Please note that the use of a country name or order delineations does not express any opinion concerning the legal status of these entities.

    Host plants

    The host plants are organized into families. Sometimes the information is limited to a family (e. g: Poaceae) or to a genus. We have tried to have and up-to-date plant nomenclature, from the The World Flora Online (WFO).

    Bibliography

    Inputs are essentially based on bibliographical references. The database contains 2229 bibliographic references from 1758 to present

    We have used the major worldwide or regional works :

  • McGregor (1950), Pritchard & Baker (1955) and Bolland, Gutierrez & Flechtmann (1998) for the world;
  • Meyer (1974 and 1987) for Africa;
  • Mitrofanov, Strunkova & Livhits (1987) for former Ussr;
  • Baker & Tuttle (1994) for Usa;
  • Ehara (1999) for Japan.

    • We would like to thank all contributors who send us their publications for their help.