Master list of insect authorities (class Insecta), a work in progress

@rowdius thank you! Hopefully at least some of these can be used to establish more complete insect orders in the future.

The following catalogue may added to the list.
Order Hemiptera
Family Miridae: On-line Systematic Catalog of Plant Bugs by R. Schuh. http://research.amnh.org/pbi/catalog/index.php

 
 
Thanks for the @, @loarie.

In fact, I have a farily large number of sources to suggest -- in various insect orders / arthropod groups. Unfortunately I also have a very nasty deadline for my day job (with which I'm busy now, despite it not being day), immediately whereafter I am being sent away on a training workshop to become even more cleverer.

I trust that this can stand over until next weekend. If it cannot wait, please PMessage me and I shall make a plan within making a plan.

Rn

I expect @psyllidhipster & @glmory may have some sources.

Hemiptera Databases network ( https://www.hemiptera-databases.org/ ) has a few very good sources for various groups. As far as Sternorrhyncha is concerned:
Psylloidea: https://www.hemiptera-databases.org/psyllist/
Aleyrodoidea (Whiteflies) : https://www.hemiptera-databases.org/whiteflies/

For Coccoidea, there is ScaleNet: http://scalenet.info/fams/

Thanks, @cabintom. I was unaware of the Afroptropical Butterflies and Skippers" - I only knew of ADBD. I have updated the list above. Do you know of any butterfly ranks above genus that are exclusively endemic to Africa?

@bobby23 How about Fungus Gnats Online for Sciaroidea?

@edanko @treegrow @upupa-epops since we're on the topic of Diptera, do any of you know of any other taxonomic authorities / aggregators for flies? I know its a large order, so I don't expect there to be any references for the entire order, but (from the perspective of someone who does not study insects) it is plausible that more well-studied branches - such as Muscoidea, Tephritoidea, or Syrphidae - may have dedicated authorities out there.

Not all names, obviously, but a systematic guide to the dizzying number of Coleoptera higher taxa. https://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=4001

Regarding Afrotropical butterflies, I strongly agree with @cabintom that ADBD has become unusably unreliable and out of date, and I am happy to see that the LepSocAfrica / Williams encyclopedia has been suggested to take the place of ADBD.

@kitty12
I would certainly not call it a "shame" that a paper of 972 pages had become outdated in 8 years' time. I would rather call that a triumphant sign that the taxonomy of Coleoptera is undergoing a taxonomic revolution in our very lifetime, similar to many, many other groups of organisms. It's difficult to keep up. A new family of beetle was described this week.

I don't believe that the original authors of the 2011 work will prepare an update. Their work (about 800 pages of the total) has been done: they cleared up nomenclatural problems at the family-group level throughout the order. That will stand the test of time, but that is not what their paper is used for most. I don't think that it was ever their intention that the introductory 100 pages (classification) would become the international standard for a decade. Their paper was, in fact, meant to be nomenclatural, perhaps exclusively so. But they compiled a workable classification, even though there are some quaint and oldfashioned ideas therein, outdated even for 2011, upon its publication.

This was, however, incontestably a watershed paper. What is happening now is that numerous teams work towards comparable tomes for smaller groups within the Coleoptera, mostly at the level of superfamily; at times at the level of family. A new edition of Bouchard &al (2011) will likely run not to almost 1,000 pages, but to 10,000.

 
@bobby23
Bobby, they simply do not exist. For the Coccinellidae I mostly work from a catalogue from the 1930s. Most comprehensive curc catalogues are older, but there are spanky new ones for the northern hemisphere. Available in PDF. I've got a very modern resource for the world Dynastinae, fortunately: 1980, and written in a cross between English and Hungarian. Available on yellowing East European paper.

Give us a break, man. We're working on it. ;-)

Sooner or later us coleopterists will get to bird or mammal level. (Rather later than sooner.) Like this magnificent marvellous catalogue of the Staphyliniformia, which took the eminenent Al Newton 40 years to complete:

StaphBase: https://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/details/database/id/204.

Oh that you may certainly use! Just keep up with the continuous and unrelenting updates. But PUHLEEZE don't use the stinkin' Catalogue of Life for any other Coleoptera -- with the exception of StaphBase, CoL is worse to much worse to extremely much worse than what we already have on iNaturalist.
 

Also, Systema Dipterorum keeps timing out, is it still available?

An updated checklist of the European Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea)
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330025423_An_updated_checklist_of_the_European_Butterflies_Lepidoptera_Papilionoidea