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Diversity of Edible and Therapeutically Important Insects and Other Arthropods
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Diversity of Edible and Therapeutically Important Insects and Other Arthropods

A special issue of Diversity (ISSN 1424-2818). This special issue belongs to the section "Animal Diversity".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2021) | Viewed by 4537

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Joost Van Itterbeeck

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Centre for Asian Area Studies, Rikkyo University, 3-34-1 Nishi-Ikebukuro, Toshima-ku, Tokyo 171-8501, Japan
Interests: entomophagy; ecosystem services and disservices of social insects

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues, 

Since time immemorial, insects and other arthropods have been used by humans as food, feed, and medicine. To select the most appropriate species depends on a variety of criteria, of which abundance and the ease with which specimens can be obtained and processed are paramount. Since the biodiversity of arthropods varies by geographic region, climes, and habitats on Earth, people unsurprisingly do not make use of the same species all over the world but are selective. This Special Issue “Animal Diversity” examines how preferences for edible and therapeutic species of arthropods vary among different cultures and geographic regions and whether the biodiversity of aquatic or terrestrial, herbivorous or carnivorous species is under greater pressure from such uses.

Dr. Joost Van Itterbeeck
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • Entomophagy
  • Food
  • Zootherapy
  • Folk medicine
  • Aquatic insects
  • Terrestrial arthropods
  • Phytophagous arthropods
  • Carnivorous arthropods
  • Novelty food
  • Food traditions

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11 pages, 285 KiB  
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How Many Edible Insect Species Are There? A Not So Simple Question
by Joost Van Itterbeeck and Laurent Pelozuelo
Diversity 2022, 14(2), 143; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/d14020143 - 17 Feb 2022
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Insects used as food and medicine are receiving increased attention. There is a need to scrutinise recent estimates of which and how many insect species are used as we have noticed inappropriate assessments and overestimations. We review the contemporary list of edible insects [...] Read more.
Insects used as food and medicine are receiving increased attention. There is a need to scrutinise recent estimates of which and how many insect species are used as we have noticed inappropriate assessments and overestimations. We review the contemporary list of edible insects of the world published online by Wageningen University and compiled by Ijde Jongema since it is widely used in the literature. Each of the 2403 entries were scrutinised, including checking name validity, verifying insect usage in cited references, and categorising each entry. Our revision indicates inappropriate assessments and inclusions such as spiders (not insects) and insect products (e.g., honeydew) when the insect itself is not used. With relevant and accepted definitions, we provide a critical assessment and estimate of the number of food insects (1611) and medicinal insects (81), which is lower than Wageningen University and Jongema’s estimate of 2111 “edible insects”. We acknowledge that our critical assessment may also be an overestimate or an underestimate and deserves further scrutiny, and we encourage a more practical use of a database of food and medicinal insects with our suggestion for a querying online curated database. We conclude that making accurate estimates is a difficult feat but that inappropriate assessments can and need to be avoided. Full article
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