ID Resource Resource Finder
The ID Resource Finder is an online searchable catalogue of UK wildlife identification resources. A key feature is that this catalogue is crowd-sourced, all you have to do is create an account to add/edit the resources.
If you spot anything missing, any broken links or mistakes then please jump in and add/fix it. Or let the team know about issue via email: [email protected].
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| Guide to insects of the British Isles | Written and illustrated by renowned natural history artist Richard Lewington, this new 8 panel fold-out chart is a guide | Lewington | No | Publication | View Edit |
| British Scraptiidae | RES Handbook vol 5 part 18. | Levey | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Lepidoptera Dissection Group website | This website contains high-magnification images of the dissected genitalia of macro- and micro-moths. | Lepidoptera Dissection Group | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Mydiptera by Leif Karlsson Online Diptera keys | Online illustrated key to world diptera families, plus keys to species for some Muscidae genera and various other fly fa | Leif Karlsson | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Illustrated key to the British False Scorpions (Pseudoscorpions) | Most people who see a false scorpion for the first time are fascinated. | Legg & Farr-Cox | No | Publication | View Edit |
| British leafminers | From the homepage: "This site is the result of an on-going project, set up to photograph and record all the leaf mi | leafmines.co.uk | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Thysanoptera Britannica et Hibernica: Thrips of the British Isles | This identification and information system includes 177 species of thrips that have been taken alive on the British Isle | Laurence Mound, Dom Collins, Anne Hastings | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| BSBI Handbook No 11 Water Starworts: Callitriche of Europe | ISBN: 9780901158369 Provides guidance on the identification of all species, subspecies and varieties of water-starwort | Lansdown, R. V. | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Fungi of Temperate Europe | Identification form wheels to fungi genera. | Laessoe, T. and Petersen, J. H. | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| The Equisetum species (horsetails) of the British Isles | Multi-access online key and descriptions generated from a DELTA database. | L. Watson and M. J. Dallwitz | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| The families of British spiders | Delta Intkey for the identification of British Spiders to family. | L. Watson and M. J. Dallwitz | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| RES Handbook Vol 5 Part 11. Dung Beetles & chafers - Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea | The superfamily Scarabaeoidea forms a clear-cut natural group within Coleoptera that has been recognized since the earli | L. Jessop | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| RES Handbook Vol 1 Part 11. Thysanoptera | The term 'British species' may be interpreted in different ways. | L. A. Mound, G. D. Morison, B. R. Pitkin & J. M. Palmer | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| Field Guide to the Dragonflies of Britain and Europe | This ground-breaking identification guide to all the dragonflies and damselflies of Britain and Europe brings some of th | Klaas-Douwe B Dijkstra, illustrated by Richard Lewington | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Siphonophores and velellids | To all except marine biologists, the Portuguese man-o'war Physalia is often regarded as the only British siphonopho | Kirkpatrick & Pugh | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Coleoptera: Kateretidae & Nitudulidae: Meligethinae (Pollen beetles) | RES Handbook vol 5 part 6a. | Kirk-Spriggs | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Freshwater Bivalves of Britain and Ireland | Produced in conjunction with the Environment Agency, this AIDGAP identification guide covers the 31 different species of | Killeen, Aldridge & Oliver | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Botanical keys and how to use them - Facebook group | A closed group (anyone can request to join). | Kevin Widdowson | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| RES Handbook Vol 10 Part 3a. Diptera - Conopidae | FLIES of the family Conopidae may be recognized by the narrowed or closed first posterior cell (R5) and the long anal ce | Kenneth G. V. Smith | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| RES Handbook Vol 10 Part 5g. Diptera - Agromyzidae | THE Agromyzidae belong to the section Acalyptratae of the suborder Cyclorrhapha Schizophora. | Kenneth A. Spencer | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| ID guide to pines grown in the UK (Pinus) | ID guide to pines grown in the UK (Pinus), including leaves and cones. | Ken Adams | Yes | View Edit | |
| Identification of common benthic diatoms in rivers | This AIDGAP field guide includes illustrated identification keys to the genera of diatoms found in benthic habitats in r | Kelly | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Trees of Britain and Europe | This field guide contains a collection of photographs of everything you need to identify a tree - whether in winter, spr | Keith Rushforth | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Copepods parastic on fishes (revised) | This Synopsis covers 130 species known to parasitise fish (mainly from the poecilostomatoid and siphonostomatoid groups, | Kabata | No | Publication | View Edit |
| RES Handbook Vol 10 Part 14. An introduction to the immature stages of British Flies. Diptera Larvae, with notes on eggs, puparia and pupae. Main text | Knowledge of the larvae of Diptera lags far behind that of the adults. | K. G. V. Smith | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| RES Handbook Vol 10 Part 14. An introduction to the immature stages of British Flies. Diptera Larvae, with notes on eggs, puparia and pupae. Figures index | This is just the figures and index for the volume of the same name. | K. G. V. Smith | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| The Spiders of Europe and Greenland | From the homepage: "The aim of this website is to show images of as many European spider species as possible. | Jørgen Lissner | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| The Pseudoscorpions of Europe | From the homepage: "The aim of this webpage is to provide information about the pseudoscorpion fauna of Europe. | Jørgen Lissner | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Diatom Flora of Britain and Ireland | Freshwater Diatom Flora of Britain and Ireland is a major project aiming to compile a web-based diatom flora and compreh | Jüttner I., Bennion H., Carter C., Cox E.J., Ector L., Flower R., Jones V., Kelly M.G., Mann D.G., Sayer C., Turner, J. A., Williams D.M. | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Punch-card grasses key - Identikit | In 1985 the Field Studies Council published an innovative polyclave (multi-access) key to British grasses that relied on | Judith Allinson, Richard Pankhurst and Richard Burkmar | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Keys to families of British spiders | This AIDGAP identification guide includes the 34 families of spiders known to occur in Britain (at the time it was writt | Jones-Walters | No | Publication | View Edit |
| A guide to British Bats | This 8-panel laminated fold-out chart includes 16 species of bats that live and breed in Britain. | Jones & Walsh | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Moorland Plants | This fold-out chart is designed to aid the identification of moorland and heathland plants in the British Isles. | Jones & Roberts | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Coleoptera: Clambidae | RES Handbook vol 4 part 6a. The family Clambidae is represented in Britain by two genera: Clambus and Calyptomerus. | Johnson | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Guides to British Beetles | John Walters free downloadable guides to a growing selection of British Beetles | John Walters and Mark Telfer | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| Field key to bee-flies of the Netherlands | Superbly illustrated photographic key (in Dutch) to Bombyliidae & Mythicomyiidae. | John Smit | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| RES Handbook Vol 8 Part 1b. Hymenoptera. Cynipoidea. Eucoilidae | THE family Eucoilidae is the largest and most widely distributed of the parasitic families in the Cynipoidea. | John Quinlan | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| An amendment to the crab key | The crab key (Crothers and Crothers, 1983) is amended to incorporate the pelagic crab Planes minutus. | John and Marylin Crothers | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| Spinnentiere, Arachnida: Weberknechte, Opiliones (Martens 1978) PART 1 | German text. Huge amount of taxonomic information and diagrams about harvestmen. | Jochen Martens | Yes | View Edit | |
| Spinnentiere, Arachnida: Weberknechte, Opiliones (Martens 1978) PART 2 | German text. Huge amount of taxonomic information and diagrams about harvestmen. | Jochen Martens | Yes | View Edit | |
| Spinnentiere, Arachnida: Weberknechte, Opiliones (Martens 1978) PART 3 | German text. Huge amount of taxonomic information and diagrams about harvestmen. | Jochen Martens | Yes | View Edit | |
| BSBI Handbook No 1 Sedges of the British Isles | ISBN-13: 978-0901158352 The 3rd edition of this handbook has been considerably expanded in size, with the scope of the | Jermy, AC. Simpson, DA. Foley, MJY. Porter, MS | No | Publication | View Edit |
| The Butterflies of Britain & Ireland (new 2014 edition) | The Butterflies of Britain & Ireland provides comprehensive coverage of all our resident and migratory butterfli | Jeremy Thomas & Richard Lewington | No | Publication | View Edit |
| BSBI Handbook No 5 Charophytes of Great Britain and Ireland | Reprinted 2005 with a new preface and corrections by Dr C. Preston. | Jenny A Moore | No | Publication | View Edit |
| British Spider identification | Facebook group dedicated to identifying British spiders. | Jenni Cox | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Dutch Harvestmen website | Dutch Harvestmen website (in English). Most British species are described and illustrated, plus some new species. | Jan van Duine | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Dutch Opiliones, Harvestmen | Some very good photographs of most Dutch harvestmen on one page (including most of the UK fauna). English version. | Jan J van Duinen | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Vegetative identification keys for selected woody plant genera in Western European cultivation | Vegetative identification keys (pdf files in English) for selected woody plant genera in Western European cultivation, c | Jan De Langhe | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| Top 50 garden birds: British garden bird identification | This fold-out chart is designed to help with the identification of the majority of bird species likely to be found in a | Jackson, Simms & Shields | No | Publication | View Edit |
| BSBI Handbook No 3 Docks and Knotweeds of Britain and Ireland | ISPN: 9780901158475 Based on "Docks and Knotweeds of the British Isles" by Lousley and Kent (1981) this long | J.R. Akeroyd | No | Publication | View Edit |
