Vincent S. Smith discusses cybertaxonomy and how computers can help with the tasks of systematists like sorting through insect species and constructing phylogenetic trees to show evolutionary relationships. The document provides statistics on the proportion of described species within different taxonomic groups like insects, plants, and fungi. It also includes a diagram of the Paraneoptera insect ordinal phylogeny.

1. What is Cybertaxonomy ?
some case studies from a louse systematist
Vincent S. Smith
Illinois Natural History Survey
University of Illinois Campus
Champaign, Illinois
USA

2. “The bane of my existence is doing things that I
know the computer could do for me”
-- Dan Connolly, The XML Revolution
(Nature, 1998)