The progress in computer vision and pattern recognition algo-
rithms provides an effective alternative for identifying the insect
species and many systems that incorporate these algorithms have
been developed in the past two decades [5–9]. In the image retrieval
domain, one of the common approaches introduced to complement
the difficulties in text-based retrieval relies on the use of Content-
Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) systems [10–12], where sample images
are used as querie sand compared with the database images based on
visual content similarities [13,14] (color,texture,objectshape,etc.).In
both the identification and retrieval scenarios, visual features that are
extracted to represent morphological and taxonomic information play
an important role in the final performance. Context information is
often used to help improve detection performance of the individual
visual features [15].