Category Overview
The izeltlabuak.hu website primarily focuses on arthropods found in Hungary. This entry also deals with Hungarian fauna.
Overview
On the izeltlabuak.hu site, you can browse Hungarian arthropods by taxonomic categories.
Availability
You can access the category overview from the homepage with the 'Browse arthropods' button, or from the 'Hungarian Arthropods' menu item in the header.
Category Overview
Higher Categories
Higher categories represent taxonomic categories above the family level. For easier overview, we have highlighted the more commonly used taxa. Their ranks are mostly orders (beetles, flies, spiders, etc.), but can also be suborders (bugs, cicadas, ...), classes (centipedes, millipedes, ...), and a few other taxonomic categories. Butterflies are grouped into the scientifically less used but commonly known macrolepidoptera and microlepidoptera groups.
Category Filtering
By clicking on a list item's name, you reach a short summary page, data sheet that presents it. In addition, further tabs help with navigation. Besides the data sheet, these include pages like 'families', 'genera', 'species', 'observations', 'descriptions', 'identification keys' and 'discussion'.
Starting from a higher category, you can navigate to further subcategories at family, genus and species level with the help of the 'families', 'genera', 'species' tabs. For example, from the macrolepidoptera category, you can navigate to the families below it, or to the species list.
Macrolepidoptera families
In the macrolepidoptera families list, the first family will be noctuids. From here, we can proceed to the genera under noctuids, or to the species list.
Noctuid genera
Among the noctuid genera, Mythimna will be the first genus. From here, we can proceed to the species list under the genus: Mythimna albipuncta, Mythimna turca, ...
Mythimna species
Elements of Taxonomic Lists
The lists (higher categories, families, genera, species) contain arthropod taxa occurring in Hungary. Elements can be added to the lists in two main ways:
- based on published sources
- based on identifications given to observations.
A published source can be a book, an article, or a scientific publication. We regularly process sources and shape the domestic list accordingly. For species, the processed sources can be found in the 'Sources' section on the species page.
The other way to get into the list is if an identification arrives for an observation submitted within Hungary's borders that is not yet in the domestic list. We add these new list elements to the domestic list on a monthly basis.
Species sources
List Completeness
Although we regularly process sources, we have not yet managed to process all of them, meaning the species in them have not been marked as domestic on the website.
On the list pages of families and genera under a main category, or genera and species under a family, we indicate the completeness of the list. If a processed source indicates that the list is comprehensive for Hungary, we show the message "Source processing is comprehensive in terms of nomenclature and occurrence list." Otherwise, we show "Source processing is not comprehensive in terms of nomenclature and occurrence list." If not comprehensive, the complete processing of published sources has not yet been completed, or there is no publication containing a current list covering the domestic fauna. In this case, we may not be using current nomenclature, or the list may be incomplete.
Species Groups, Subspecies
We call species groups those groupings that we created because a specific species usually cannot be determined from an image, but can be narrowed down to two (species pair), or less commonly three species. Even if not to species level, the identification can be narrowed down to species pair instead of genus, and species groups also have occurrence maps where we can see their distribution. An example of a species pair is the ground bug species pair created from the Lygaeus equestris and Lygaeus simulans species.
For technical reasons, both species groups and subspecies count as species on the website. The consequence of this is that they are incorrectly included in the species count. In the case of subspecies, for example, Carabus can distort the species count.
This known limitation is expected to be improved in the future.
Page Structure
Navigation
At the top of the page, you can proceed to
- parent group pages
- subpages belonging to the given taxon with the help of tabs
Navigation between parent groups
Display Settings, Search by Scientific Name
With display settings, you can customize how list items appear and filter them according to various criteria.
You can read about display settings in detail here.
Display settings and search on the beetle species list searching by scientific name
You can use the following settings for sorting and filtering:
In addition, you can search by scientific name among the currently displayed list elements.
Basic Data
By default, we arrive at the 'Basic Data' tab, where we can see a featured observation with its associated image, as well as summary data about the taxon.
Taxa List
Under the families, genera and species tabs, we can see the paginated list of taxa belonging to the given taxon, listed in the tab.
In the list, a list item represents a taxon, e.g. a specific family, genus, or species. The list item contains the taxon's featured image or images, as well as the taxon's data.
Macrolepidoptera - Macrolepidoptera species in list view
Macrolepidoptera - Macrolepidoptera species in image view
You can read about switching between different views in detail here.