This project is an innovative and novel method for overcoming the taxonomic impediment that hinders nations wishing to implement Article 7 of the Convention on Biological Diversity. It is thus a Darwin project, as it uses British skills and computer software to provide the means for biodiversity-rich countries to inventory and monitor their own Biodiversity. Through the process of us developing a working system for the automatic identification of the target group of insects, this project will develop in the partner country the skills necessary to extend image analysis techniques to a far wider range of organisms than just the target groups. As the system will be automated and accessible over the internet, it will be available to a wide range of users both in other institutions in the partner country, and elsewhere in the region. Furthermore, diagnostic images of specimens held in the Natural History Museum will be accessible to workers in overseas institutions a novel form of improving access to data held in UK institutions, which is one need highlighted by the Darwin Committee. The system effectively captures taxonomic information and expertise permanently, particularly cost-effective as it removes the need for countries to develop expensive reference collections of fragile, perishable material, and duplicate taxonomic skills found elsewhere.