Abstract
Entomology is the study of insects; there are around 1.3 million species in the world. Insect recognition is a very important part of the study of insects, especially in the context of agricultural and biological control. However, for people who are not entomologist or experts in the elds of agriculture, it is also important to know what kind of insects are around them because they could be dangerous or harmless. Therefore, this thesis proposes an android application to recognize insects; in scienti c terms, it focuses on the class insecta, which is divided in 29 orders of species. The application works by just taking a picture to the insect with the android phone and then the systems outputs to the user all the useful information such as the insect family and its characteristics. The application is written in C++ and it's tested in an android environment connected through JNI and Android NDK