An introduction to the software package DELTA (DEscription Language for TAxonomy) is given. The contribution consists of step by step instructions into the DELTA Editor and the interactive identification program Intkey. It describes how to record taxonomic character information in a database and mai...

Describing and naming are the first steps in a systematist's work in any biodiversity study. Comparing a single specimen with all the published descriptions is often a headache. The oldest solution to facilitate taxon identification was the creation of single-access identification keys. The first ex...

Taxonomists usually spend a lot of time and mind to edit identification key and description of taxa after they finished the research of taxonomy. Actually the repetitive, time-intensive, minute and complicated task can be done more efficiently by using suitable computer and packages. The most import...