Insecta Mundi
A Peer-Reviewed Journal for Insect and Arthropod Systematics
Insecta Mundi is a journal primarily devoted to insect systematics, but articles can be published on any non-marine arthropods.
Manuscripts considered for publication include, but are not limited to:
- Descriptions of new taxa
- Revisions
- Taxonomic or nomenclatural notes
- Bibliographies
- Checklists
- Catalogs
- Life histories
For papers describing new taxa, Insecta Mundi provides authors rapid publication so the names may be included in other publications.
From 1985 to 2006, Insecta Mundi was produced with yearly volume numbers and printed on paper quarterly. As of 2007, Insecta Mundi (paper ISSN 0749-6737, CD-ROM ISSN 1942-1362, online ISSN 1942-1354) was published on paper irregularly throughout the year. As manuscripts are completed and published, they are individually, sequentially numbered. There are no longer year-based volume or issue numbers. Further details about our policies and procedures can be found in 2007 Insecta Mundi 0001.
Recent changes in the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, starting in 2012, allowed Insecta Mundi's open accessible electronic publication to be the form validating each articles publication date. In 2014, manuscript submissions to Insecta Mundi has grown to a volume that we suffered a staffing crisis and had to reorganize our manuscript processing. The primarily difference is that we increased the number of volunteer Editors and changed manuscript submission requirements. Our current editorial team is listed also here.
Contact
David Plotnik
Chief Editor
Email: [email protected]
Address
Center for Systematic Entomology
P.O. Box 141874
Gainesville, FL 32614-1874 USA
Author Instructions
Editor Guidelines
Ethic Statement
Author Requirements
- Potential authors must have their manuscript reviewed by two peer reviewers prior to submission.
- Any submission is required to provide these reviews as well as completed Reviewer Reports and a Submission Contract form.
- All These forms are available on the Author Instructions page.
- One author of each submitted manuscript must be a current member of the Center for Systematic Entomology (CSE).
- Membership is presently $US 40.00.
Publication Model
Insecta Mundi is not in the printing business. Thus, we offer no reprints for sale. Our intent is to publish articles for CSE members and ensure that these articles are distributed, archived, and readily available.
Authors are provided with a PDF file of their article, which can be printed easily by them or at a local print shop. Insecta Mundi has no page charges, no web posting fees, and there is no extra charge for the use of color.
Insecta Mundi is widely distributed and referenced or abstracted by several sources, including the Zoological Record, CAB Abstracts, and others.
Archiving and Access
Printed copies of each issue are deposited in several international libraries, as listed on the inside cover of each article. These are printed and mailed once a year.
Electronic copies in PDF format are made available on the day of publication by sending members an email notice with links to recent publications. Newly published papers are posted on this website on the day of publication.
Online free open-accessible copies are available in PDF format at the Florida Virtual Campus, Goethe University Library (Frankfurt, Germany), and University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Digital Commons soon after publication. Insecta Mundi is electronically archived by Portico.
Copyright & Permissions
Copyright for any article published in Insecta Mundi follows terms of the Creative Commons, Attribution Non-Commercial License (cc by-nc). By submitting and publishing articles in Insecta Mundi, authors grant the CSE and Insecta Mundi's host institutions permission to make articles available through all forms of media, including (but not limited to) posting on the internet, distributing reprints of hard copies, and dissemination of digital copies via e-mail and CD-ROM. Authors also grant the CSE and Insecta Mundi's host institutions permission to archive articles both electronically and in hard-printed versions.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License.
Editorial Board
- David Plotkin (University of Florida, USA)
- Davide Dal Pos (University of Central Florida, USA)
- Felipe Soto-Adames (Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, USA)
- M.J. Paulsen (University of Nebraska, USA)
- Paul E. Skelley (Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, USA)
Chief Editor
David Plotkin (University of Florida, USA)
Founding Editors
- J. Howard Frank* (deceased)
- John B. Heppner (University of Florida, USA)
- Lionel A. Stange* (deceased)
- Michael C. Thomas* (deceased)
- Robert E. Woodruff* (deceased)
- Ross H. Arnett, Jr.* (deceased)
- Virendra Gupta* (deceased)
Review Editors
- Adam Brunke* (Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes, Canada)
- Alessandra Pandolfi (University of Central Florida, USA)
- Aline Barcellos (Museu de Ciências Naturais da Fundação Zoobotânica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
- Andy Rasmussen* (Florida A&M University, USA)
- Angélico Asenjo* (Instituto Tecnológico Vale, Brazil)
- Bill Grogan (Florida State Collection of Arthropods, USA)
- David Bowles (Missouri State University, USA)
- David Plotkin (University of Florida, USA)
- Elena Ortiz-Acevedo* (Universidad del Norte, Colombia)
- Elijah Talamas* (Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, USA)
- Erin C. Powell (Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, USA)
- Felipe Soto-Adames (Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, USA)
- Gary Steck (Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, USA)
- Joe Eger (Florida State Collection of Arthropods, USA)
- José Martínez (Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, USA)
- Julieta Brambila (USDA-APHIS-PPQ, USA)
- Kevin Hinson (EpiLogic GmbH Agrarbiologische Forschung und Beratung, Germany)
- Kevin Williams* (California Department of Food and Agriculture, USA)
- Kyle Schnepp (North Carolina State University, USA)
- Larry Hribar (Florida Keys Mosquito Control District, USA)
- M.J. Paulsen (University of Nebraska, USA)
- Mike Ferro (Clemson University, USA)
- Oliver Keller (Florida State Collection of Arthropods, USA)
- Patrick Gorring* (Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, USA)
- Paul E. Skelley (Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, USA)
- Ryan St Laurent* (University of Colorado, USA)
Layout Editors
Robert Forsyth (Royal British Columbia Museum, Canada)
Post Production
Paul E. Skelley (Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, USA)
All editors are active members of the Center for Systematic Entomology, unless indicated otherwise with an asterisk (*).
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