| Taxonomic Group |
English
name |
Taxonomic
coverage |
Coverage
of Ireland |
No.
of taxa in database |
No.
of records in database |
| Protozoa |
| Protozoa: dinoflagellates |
dinoflagellate protozoa |
marine species |
N/A |
236 |
27845 |
| Plants |
| Fungi: Myxomycetes |
slime moulds |
partial |
N/A |
96 |
22725 |
| Fungi: Ascomycetes |
ascomycete fungi |
partial |
N/A |
13 |
1217 |
| Algae: charophytes |
stoneworts |
complete |
N/A |
52 |
9410 |
| Algae |
seaweeds |
complete |
full |
724 |
76731 |
| Bryophyta |
mosses and liverworts |
complete |
N/A |
1250 |
788244 |
| Tracheophyta |
vascular plants |
complete |
full |
6750 |
9058358 |
| Animals |
| Platyhelminthes |
flatworms |
freshwater species |
none |
10 |
496 |
| Annelida: Hirudinea |
leeches |
freshwater species |
full |
16 |
4414 |
| Mollusca |
slugs, snails, etc |
non-marine species |
full |
227 |
201240 |
| Crustacea: Chirocephalus diaphanus |
fairy shrimp |
Chirocephalus diaphanus only |
N/A |
1 |
163 |
| Crustacea: Cladocera |
water-fleas |
complete |
N/A |
86 |
9559 |
| Crustacea: Amphipoda |
amphipods |
well-shrimps and land-shrimp only |
N/A |
7 |
582 |
| Crustacea: Isopoda: Oniscidea |
woodlice |
complete |
full |
37 |
27054 |
| Crustacea: Isopoda: Asellus spp. |
water-slaters |
|
N/A |
3 |
582 |
| Decapoda |
crayfish |
complete |
N/A |
6 |
3896 |
| Myriapoda |
millipedes & centipedes |
complete |
N/A |
98 |
34330 |
| Odonata |
dragonflies |
complete |
full |
58 |
109117 |
| Orthoptera & related orders |
grasshoppers, etc |
complete |
full |
59 |
46346 |
| Neuroptera & related orders |
lacewings, etc |
complete |
full |
82 |
18508 |
| Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera |
butterflies |
complete |
full |
70 |
1857400 |
| Lepidoptera in part |
macro-moths |
complete |
N/A |
773 |
378549 |
| Lepidoptera: Zygaenidae |
burnet-moths |
complete |
N/A |
42 |
5520 |
| Coleoptera |
beetles |
a few species |
N/A |
10 |
1030 |
| Coleoptera: Atomariinae |
atomariine beetles |
complete |
full |
48 |
10814 |
| Coleoptera: Cantharoidea & Buprestoidea |
soldier and jewel beetles |
complete (validation work in progress) |
full |
72 |
30412 |
| Coleoptera: Carabidae |
ground-beetles |
complete |
incomplete |
354 |
141700 |
| Coleoptera: Cerambycidae |
longhorn beetles |
complete |
incomplete |
66 |
12867 |
| Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae & Bruchidae |
leaf- and seed-beetles |
complete |
N/A |
|
|
| Coleoptera: Ciidae |
ciid beetles |
Cis bilamellatus principally |
N/A |
5 |
736 |
| Coleoptera: Coccinellidae |
ladybirds |
complete |
N/A |
44 |
9340 |
| Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Omaliinae |
omaliine rove beetles |
complete |
N/A |
84 |
8644 |
| Hymenoptera (in part) |
bumblebees |
complete |
N/A |
27 |
18505 |
| Hymenoptera: Aculeata |
bees, wasps and ants |
(110 spp to date) |
full |
22 |
2054 |
| Hymenoptera: Parasitica |
parasitic Hymenoptera |
a few species |
N/A |
3 |
431 |
| Diptera: Brachycera |
horse-flies, soldier-flies, robber-flies, etc. |
larger species |
full |
149 |
20980 |
| Diptera: Dixidae |
meniscus midges |
complete |
N/A |
14 |
1463 |
| Diptera: Dolichopodidae &/or Empididae |
'dollies and empids' |
partial |
N/A |
20 |
582 |
| Diptera: Muscidae |
muscid flies |
cattle-visiting species only |
N/A |
8 |
2259 |
| Diptera: Ptychopteridae |
ptychopterid craneflies |
complete |
full |
7 |
1894 |
| Diptera: Sepsidae |
sepsid flies |
complete |
full |
27 |
6083 |
| Diptera: Syrphidae |
hoverflies |
full |
none |
266 |
374784 |
| Diptera: Tephritidae |
picture-winged flies |
partial |
N/A |
65 |
4921 |
| Siphonaptera |
fleas |
partial |
N/A |
37 |
1939 |
| Opiliones |
harvestmen |
complete |
full |
25 |
11834 |
| Acariformes |
ticks |
Ixodes ricinus only |
N/A |
1 |
249 |
| Araneae |
spiders |
complete (validation in progress) |
none |
255 |
451975 |
| Agnatha, Chondrichthyes & Osteichthyes |
fish |
freshwater, estuarine and migratory species |
N/A |
|
235050 |
| Amphibia & Reptilia |
amphibians and reptiles |
complete |
N/A |
18 |
53084 |
| Mammalia |
mammals |
complete, excluding cetaceans |
N/A |
72 |
125625 |
