Respected all
Is there is any database which classify insects according to their guild (feeding habit) and Ecological/functional roles like predator, parasitoid, scavenger, pollinator. Please let me know if such database exists..
Thank you in advance
Hello Senthilraja; Here is a paper about ants that may help you.
Andersen, AN. Functional groups and patterns of organization in North American ant communities: a comparison with Australia.
J. Biogeography (1997) 24, 433-460. The paper is pretty old but the analysis has been stable.
Best regards, Jim Des Lauriers
James Des Lauriers Thank you very much sir.. for sharing.. it will definitely help me.
Senthilraja N. I do not think such a database exists. From what I know, only recently was something like this developed for birds and only for a specific trait.
Your best bet would be to look at papers as what was shared above and identification keys that use traits to identify order, family or species-level.
To what taxonomic level are you considering. Are you looking at orders or sp-level (the latter for which I highly doubt a DB would exist)??
Rion E. Lerm Yes, you're correct. While there is some data available for family-level classification, such as in certain research papers, information at the genus or species level is currently lacking.
Senthilraja N. I hope you find a workaround for your issue. Unfortunately, I have not yet been storing ad hoc family- or order-level classification systems. All the best.