Insects and Other Invertebrates
There are an estimated 11,500 species of insect recorded in Ireland (11,422 actual at October 2010: in well-known groups 1,400 of these moths, 33 species of dragonflies/damselflies and 34 species of butterfly). Many more remain to be found. Four checklists of the Irish insect fauna have been published to date-Coleoptera, Lepidoptera Diptera and Hymenoptera Spiders are represented by 378 species Literature on other Irish land invertebrates can be accessed on using the key words search facility.The site is regularly updated but gaps still exist.
For atlases See Atlases of the flora and fauna of Britain and Ireland
Notable Irish species include the freshwater pearl mussel, diving bell spider, Marsh Fritillary Butterfly, Kerry slug, Semilimax pyrenaicus, freshwater crayfish, the White Prominent moth, and Roesel's bush-cricket.
Read more about this topic: Fauna Of Ireland
Famous quotes containing the word insects:
“There are men from whom nature or some peculiar destiny has removed the cover beneath which we hide our own madness. They are like thin-skinned insects whose visible play of muscles seem to make them deformed, though in fact, everything soon turns to its normal shape again.”
—E.T.A.W. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus Wilhelm)