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  1. Lars Willighagen @[email protected]

    I just finished migrating the Library of Identification Resources from the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy to the taxonomy of the Catalogue of Life. This went surprisingly well!

    larsgw.blogspot.com/2026/07/mi

    #taxonomy #GBIF #CatalogueOfLife

    #taxonomy #gbif #catalogueoflife
  2. Lars Willighagen @[email protected]

    First actual impression of working with the Catalogue of Life XR (Extended Release) is that it seems to work very well! Currently on 10% of mapping the LoIR database, I will take a look at the statistics later.

    #taxonomy #GBIF #CatalogueOfLife

    #taxonomy #gbif #catalogueoflife
  3. GBIF @[email protected]

    🥁 Introducing.... the new and improved GBIF.org! 😍

    Our refreshed website brings a series of enhancements to both the technical capabilities and user experience of GBIF infrastructure.

    What's new?
    🧬 #CatalogueofLife is now the default taxonomy for organizing occurrence data
    📊 Customizable dashboards
    🦋 Improved presentation of sampling & event data
    🤖 Tech stack aligned to GBIF hosted portals

    Explore the new GBIF.org:🔗 gbif.link/new-gbif.org

    #catalogueoflife
  4. Donald Hobern @[email protected]

    New twirler #moth described from #Chile. I've added it to the relevant dataset to feed into the classification for #CatalogueOfLife and @gbif:

    checklistbank.org/dataset/2362

    doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1269.1

    #catalogueoflife #moth #chile
  5. Donald Hobern @[email protected]

    Global #Lepidoptera Index updated.

    Feeds into #CatalogueOfLife & @gbif.

    Names updated: Erebidae: 271 Eupterotidae: 185 Nymphalidae: 42 Sphingidae: 30 Cosmopterigidae: 12 Pieridae: 9 Elachistidae: 7 Zygaenidae: 7 Limacodidae: 6 Coleophoridae: 4 Lasiocampidae: 4 Oecophoridae: 4 Lycaenidae: 4 Meessiidae: 3 Metarbelidae: 3 Lyonetiidae: 2 Crambidae: 2 Bucculatricidae: 2 Nepticulidae: 2 Notodontidae: 2 Uraniidae: 1 Hepialidae: 1 Noctuidae: 1 Papilionidae: 1 Pyralidae: 1 Glyphipterigidae: 1

    Major sources:
    Takano 2026, Revisional notes on the monkey-moth genus Stenoglene Felder & Felder, 1874 and its allies, with descriptions of several new genera and species (Lepidoptera: Bombycoidea: Eupterotidae: Janinae), dx.doi.org/10.37828/em.2026.94

    Holloway 1999, Moths of Borneo Part 5: Lymantriidae

    Pohl et al. 2023, Annotated Taxonomic Checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico

    Bouyer 2012, Description de nouveaux Eupterotidae africains (Lepidoptera), researchgate.net/publication/3

    Horsfield et al. 1860, A catalogue of the lepidopterous insects in the Museum of Natural History at the East-India House, biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3

    De Prins et al. 2024, Afromoths, online database of Afrotropical moth species (Lepidoptera), afromoths.net

    Ferguson 1978, Noctuoidea (in part): Lymantriidae, images.peabody.yale.edu/mona/2

    Nielsen et al. 1996, Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia

    Grote et al. 1866, Lepidopterological Notes and Descriptions - No. 2, biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3

    Riotte 1972, Über Orgyia definita Packard (Lep.: Lymantriidae) II. Die westlichen Populationen

    Sruoga et al. 2026, New species in the Elachista praelineata species group (Lepidoptera, Elachistidae, Elachistinae) from East Africa, with identification keys to the Afrotropical species, doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1267.1

    Min et al. 2026, Four species of the sakaiella group of Promalactis Meyrick, 1908 (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae) from China, doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5752.

    Pavlova et al. 2026, A new genus of the family Metarbelidae (Lepidoptera: Cossoidea) from Central and Western Africa, doi.org/10.25221/fee.542.1

    Felder et al. 1874, Reise der österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 unter den Befehlen des Commodore B. von Wüllerstorf-Urbair. Zoologischer Theil, archive.org/details/umdieerdei Leach 1815, Entomology, biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1

    Kuroko 2015, The Genus Cosmopterix (Lepidoptera, Cosmopterigidae)

    checklistbank.org/dataset/5543

    @[email protected]

    #lepidoptera #catalogueoflife
  6. Donald Hobern @[email protected]

    Global #Lepidoptera Index update with full revision of Brachodidae.

    checklistbank.org/dataset/5543

    Feeds into #CatalogueOfLife & @gbif.

    Names updated: Brachodidae: 191 Notodontidae: 55 Erebidae: 33 Cossidae: 27 Psychidae: 10 Depressariidae: 7 Tineidae: 6 Limacodidae: 5 Oecophoridae: 5 Noctuidae: 3 Choreutidae: 3 Pyralidae: 3 Crambidae: 2 Zygaenidae: 2 Tischeriidae: 2 Bombycidae: 1 Lacturidae: 1

    Major sources:

    Kallies 2025, Checklist of Brachodidae

    Schintlmeister et al. 2025, A review of the genus Antheua Walker, 1855 with descriptions of 19 new species and one new subspecies (Lepidoptera: Notodontidae: Phalerinae), dx.doi.org/10.37828/em.2025.90

    Japaridze et al. 2025, Burrowed through time: Exploring the enigmatic Cossidae moths of Georgia, doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5701.

    Fibiger et al. 2001, The Araeopteron genus-group in Yemen, with description of one new genus and 6 new species (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae)

    Jin et al. 2025, Four new and one newly recorded species of Araeopteron Hampson, 1893 (Erebidae, Boletobiinae, Araeopteronini), with the checklist of the genus from China, doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1256.1

    Lvovsky 2016, Five new species of flat moths (Lepidoptera, Depressariidae) from Russia and neighboring countries, doi.org/10.1134/S0013873816070

    Kallies 1998, Erster Beitrag zur Kenntnis der palaearktischen Brachodidae: Revision von Brachodes fallax mit Beschreibungen neuer zentralasiatischer Arten (Sesioidea), biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4

    Guillermet 2009, Contribution à l’étude des Hétérocères de l’île La Réunion: trois nouveaux Tineidae et un nouveau Noctuidae (Lepidoptera Heterocera)

    Ahmad et al. 2025, Four new species of the genus Striogyia Holloway (Lepidoptera: Limacodidae) from India, doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5706.

    Beaver et al. 2025, Two genera newly recorded from Australia: Mahasena Moore and Manatha Moore(Lepidoptera: Psychidae: Oiketicinae), each with a new species, doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5711.

    Min et al. 2025, Four new species of Promalactis Meyrick, 1908 (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae) from China, doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5711.

    Yakovlev 2011, Catalogue of the Family Cossidae of the Old World (Lepidoptera), zobodat.at/pdf/Neue-Entomologi

    Han et al. 2021, Three new species of the genus Araeopteron Hampson, 1893 (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Boletobiinae) from the Xizang Autonomous Region, China with an updated list of the world species, doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1060.6

    Zagulajev 1999, New and Little Known Moth Species (Lepidoptera: Thyrididae, Brachodidae) in the Fauna of Russia and Neighboring Territories:XII

    #lepidoptera #catalogueoflife
  7. GBIF @[email protected]

    📣 News alert! #CatalogueOfLife (COL) enhancement supports improved global taxonomic reference for GBIF!

    The enhancement expands the taxonomic sources for species information to include global, regional, national, management and digital literature data sources (checklists).

    As a result, COL is now capable of taxonomically organizing the more than 3.5 billion species occurrences accessible through GBIF.🦋

    Read more: 🔗gbif.link/COL

    #catalogueoflife
  8. Donald Hobern @[email protected]

    Global #Lepidoptera Index updated. Feeds into #CatalogueOfLife & @gbif.

    Names updated:

    Erebidae: 72 Argyresthiidae: 8 Nolidae: 7 Zygaenidae: 6 Noctuidae: 4 Autostichidae: 2 Castniidae: 1

    Major sources:

    Volynkin 2025, Taxonomic review of the Afrotropical taxa included in the genus Eugoa Walker with the redescription of the genus Spatulosia Toulgoët and descriptions of thirty-six new species (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Lithosiini), doi.org/10.37828/em.2025.90.1

    Huang et al. 2025, A review of the genus Docleomorpha Hering (Lepidoptera, Zygaenidae, Chalcosiinae) with descriptions of four new species, doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5689.

    Ouyang et al. 2025, Two new species and three new records of the genus Nygmia Hübner (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Lymantriinae) from Xizang, China, doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5693.

    Kim et al. 2025, Three new species of the genus Argyresthia Hübner, [1825] (Lepidoptera: Argyresthiidae) from Korea, doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5693.

    Gyulai 1989, Amphipoea chovdica sp. n. from Mongolia (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae), zobodat.at/pdf/ENT_0010_0097-0

    Sterling et al. 2025, A new species of the genus Ptochoryctis Meyrick, 1894 (Lepidoptera: Autostichidae) from India, doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5691.

    Gyulai et al. 1994, A new Amphipoea Billberg, 1820 species from West Siberia (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae), publication.nhmus.hu/pdf/annHN

    Kühne 2008, Butterflies and moth diversity of the Kakamega forest (Kenya) Hampson 1910, Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum (Natural History), biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1

    checklistbank.org/dataset/5543 @[email protected]

    #lepidoptera #catalogueoflife
  9. Donald Hobern @[email protected]

    Global #Lepidoptera Index updated, including full edit for the Castniidae (sun moths) which had outdated names for most species and dozens of unrecognised synonyms.

    Feeds into #CatalogueOfLife & @gbif

    checklistbank.org/dataset/5543

    Names updated: Castniidae: 772 Metarbelidae: 67 Noctuidae: 57 Epermeniidae: 39 Nymphalidae: 12 Limacodidae: 12 Peleopodidae: 9 Erebidae: 6 Adelidae: 5 Depressariidae: 5 Cossidae: 4 Gelechiidae: 4 Tineidae: 2 Thyrididae: 2 Nolidae: 2 Coleophoridae: 1 Papilionidae: 1 Pieridae: 1 Zygaenidae: 1

    Major sources:

    Lamas 1995, A critical review of J. Y. Miller's Checklist of the Neotropical Castniidae (Lepidoptera), sisbib.unmsm.edu.pe/BVRevistas

    Moraes et al. 2014, Phylogeny of Neotropical Castniinae (Lepidoptera: Cossoidea: Castniidae): testing the hypothesis of the mimics as a monophyletic group and implications for the arrangement of the genera, doi.org/10.1111/zoj.12102

    López-Godínez et al. 2012, Notes sur le genre Athis Hübner, [1819] et description d’une nouvelle espèce du Mexique (Lepidoptera, Castniidae), doi.org/10.3406/mhnly.2012.1580

    Huemer et al. 2025, Epermenia reinhardgaedikei sp. nov., an overlooked species from central-southern Europe (Lepidoptera, Epermeniidae), doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5661.

    Ronkay et al. 2014, New Xyleninae and Psaphidinae species from Asia, with special reference to the Central and Inner Asiatic Dasypolia Guenee, 1852 (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae)

    Chen et al. 2025, On the taxonomy of the subgenera Tatsipolia, Chalapolia, and Kitapolia of the genus Dasypolia Guenée with the description of six new species from southern Xizang, China (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Noctuidae), doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1244.1

    Yakovlev et al. 2020, Revision of the family Metarbelidae (Lepidoptera) of the Oriental Region. I. Introduction and genera Encaumaptera Hampson 1893, Orgyarbela gen. nov., and Hollowarbela gen. nov., dx.doi.org/10.37828/em.2020.38

    Kallies et al. 2020, New and little-known sun-moth species from Australia (Lepidoptera, Castniidae), doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4895.

    Oiticica 1955, Revisão dos nomes genéricos sul-americanos da subfamília Castniinae (Lepidoptera Castniidae)

    Yakovlev et al. 2021, Revision of the family Metarbelidae (Lepidoptera) of the Oriental Region. III. Genus Stueningeria Lehmann, 2019, doi.org/10.37828/em.2021.43.2

    Worthy et al. 2017, A review of the genus Haemonides Hübner, [1819] (Lepidoptera: Castniidae), doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4320.

    @[email protected]

    #lepidoptera #catalogueoflife
  10. Donald Hobern @[email protected]

    Global #Lepidoptera Index updated. Feeds into #CatalogueOfLife & @gbif.

    Names updated: Noctuidae: 1362 Erebidae: 654 Nolidae: 290 Thyrididae: 163 Zygaenidae: 29 Cossidae: 27 Notodontidae: 26 Lasiocampidae: 23 Saturniidae: 16 Eriocraniidae: 6 Bombycidae: 6 Eupterotidae: 4 Euteliidae: 4 Limacodidae: 3 Neopseustidae: 3 Thyatiridae: 2 Endromidae: 2 Depressariidae: 2 Coleophoridae: 2 Crambidae: 2 Geometridae: 2 Cosmopterigidae: 1 Uraniidae: 1 Pyralidae: 1 Hesperiidae: 1 Tineidae: 1

    Major sources:

    Pohl et al. 2023, Annotated Taxonomic Checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico

    Hacker et al. 2012, Revision of the tribe Nolini of Africa and the Western Palaearctic Region (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea, Noctuidae, Nolinae)

    Fibiger et al. 2007, Amphipyrinae - Xyleninae

    Ronkay et al. 2017, Xyleninae I. The Agrochola generic complex.

    Pekarsky et al. 2019, Psaphidinae II. - Erebidae II: The tribes Feraliini and Psaphidini and the Lygephila generic complex, real.mtak.hu/103325/1/Catalogu

    De Vos 2007, The Utetheisa species of the subgenera Pitasila, Atasca and Raanya subg. n. (Insecta, Lepidoptera: Arctiidae), researchgate.net/publication/2

    Kishida 2020, Moths of Laos, Part 1, publ.moth.jp/special/vol25sup2

    Hreblay et al. 1999, New genera and species of Noctuidae from Vietnam, Thailand and Nepal (Lepidoptera), researchgate.net/publication/2

    Kobayashi et al. 2005, Seven new species of Notodontidae (Lepidoptera) from South China, publ.moth.jp/tinea/tinea18-4.p

    László et al. 2019, Contribution to the knowledge of the Nolini of the Maputo Special Reserve in South Mozambique with description of two new species and several taxonomic updates (Lepidoptera, Nolidae, Nolinae), doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4571.

    Hreblay et al. 1998, Noctuidae. In: Haruta, T. (Ed.), Moths of Nepal. Part 5., publ.moth.jp/special/Moths-of-

    Poole 1995, Noctuoidea, Noctuidae (part), Cuculliinae, Stiriinae, Psaphidinae (part), images.peabody.yale.edu/mona/2

    Kobes 1988, A new genus and 17 new species from Sumatra (Lepidoptera: Aganaidae [Aganainae], and Noctuidae [Acronictinae, Chloephorinae, Ophiderinae])

    Hreblay et al. 1999, The Chinese species of the Diphtherocome pallida and D. discibrunnea species-groups (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Acronictinae) in the collection of the Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn

    De Prins et al. 2024, Afromoths, online database of Afrotropical moth species (Lepidoptera), afromoths.net

    Fibiger 1993, Noctuinae II.

    checklistbank.org/dataset/5543

    @[email protected]

    #lepidoptera #catalogueoflife
  11. Donald Hobern @[email protected]

    Given the ongoing discussions around how #iNaturalist should respond to a Google.org grant linked to generative AI, here is my personal story on why some web platforms remain precious to me.

    Ten years ago, I thought biodiversity informatics (through @gbif, #CatalogueOfLife, #BarcodeOfLife, iNaturalist and a whole ecosystem of intersecting online efforts) was a real contribution we could make to delivering the #SustainableDevelopmentGoals.

    Following Brexit, the subsequent US election, the handling of the pandemic, the obvious state capture of governments everywhere by fossil fuel and other extractive interests, etc., I realised the SDGs can probably not be delivered in our current political order.

    I did however think we could still use the Internet and #FAIR data to deliver the tools that could help democratic processes to turn things round.

    The rampant introduction of #LLM-based pseudo-information engines everywhere on the web has undercut even this restricted hope for what can be achieved. Everywhere, we are at risk of polluting what we know and believe to be true with truth-like, plausible or false supplements that can often only be recognised and separated at significant cost.

    Over the last couple of years, I've come to see my focus for this stage of my life to be to do what I can to help maintain clean sources of data and information where provenance is well known and understood. There are fewer and fewer of these. For me, iNaturalist, COL, BHL, #Wikimedia and #InternetArchive have been at the top of the list.

    Focusing on where I can actually "make a difference" has helped me to remaining grounded and to feeling life has some value in terrible times. My impression is that many are feeling something similar. iNaturalist is one of the last "real" places on the web, and we are scared that we will lose it and have to cross it of this very short list of human and genuine sites and communities that remain for us.

    #inaturalist #catalogueoflife #barcodeoflife #sustainabledevelopmentgoals #fair #llm
  12. Donald Hobern @[email protected]

    Global #Lepidoptera Index updated. Feeds into #CatalogueOfLife & @gbif

    checklistbank.org/dataset/5543

    Complete update for #Apatelodidae and thousands of names updated in #Noctuidae

    Names updated:

    Noctuidae: 4787 Apatelodidae: 460 Erebidae: 338 Notodontidae: 25 Crambidae: 25 Pyralidae: 21 Autostichidae: 20 Pieridae: 20 Lycaenidae: 13 Riodinidae: 11 Nymphalidae: 7 Hepialidae: 7 Phiditiidae: 7 Zygaenidae: 7 Geometridae: 6 Nolidae: 6 Lasiocampidae: 5 Tortricidae: 4 Bombycidae: 4 Lypusidae: 3 Sphingidae: 2 Thyatiridae: 2 Uraniidae: 2 Yponomeutidae: 2 Limacodidae: 2 Oecophoridae: 2 Depressariidae: 1 Mimallonidae: 1 Hesperiidae: 1 Tineidae: 1

    Major sources:

    Ronkay et al. 2001, Hadeninae II

    Hacker et al. 2022, Moths of Africa – Systematic and Illustrated Catalogue of the Heterocera of Africa, Volume 3 Acontiinae (Noctuidae) (Including Aediini Beck, 1960, Based on Traditional Treatment)

    Ronkay et al. 2023, The Jacques Plante Noctuidae Collection. Part II. Amphipyrinae, Psaphidinae, Cuculliinae, Oncocnemidinae, Acontiinae, Pantheinae, Dyopsinae, Raphiinae, Acronictinae, Bryophilinae, Heliothinae, Condicinae & Xyleninae

    Pohl et al. 2023, Annotated Taxonomic Checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico

    Orlandin et al. 2024, Systematics of Apatelodidae Neumoegen & Dyar, 1894 (Lepidoptera: Bombycoidea) based on molecular and morphological data, doi.org/10.1071/IS24041

    Ronkay et al. 2017, Xyleninae I. The Agrochola generic complex

    Volynkin et al. 2025, On the taxonomy of the genera Katha Moore, Tarika Moore, Cernyia Bucsek and Churingosia Volynkin & Černý, stat. n. with the description of a new genus and thirteen new species (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Lithosiini: Lithosiina), dx.doi.org/10.37828/em.2025.87

    Fibiger et al. 2007, Amphipyrinae - Xyleninae

    Hreblay et al. 1998, Noctuidae. In: Haruta, T. (Ed.), Moths of Nepal. Part 5., publ.moth.jp/special/Moths-of-

    Volynkin et al. 2025, On the taxonomy of the Brunia Moore generic complex with the description of a new genus, a new subgenus and four new species (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Lithosiini: Lithosiina), dx.doi.org/10.37828/em.2025.87

    Lafontaine et al. 2010, Review of the New World genera of the subfamily Acontiinae (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae), doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.39.427

    Ronkay et al. 2011, Cuculliinae II and Psaphidinae

    Hreblay et al. 1999, Neue trifide Noctuidae aus dem himalayanischen Raum und der südostasiatischen Region (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)

    #entomology #Lepidoptera #OpenData

    #lepidoptera #catalogueoflife #apatelodidae #noctuidae #entomology #opendata
  13. TaxonWorks @taxonworks

    Released 0.52.0. Changelog: github.com/SpeciesFileGroup/ta

    A big update "under the hood". Lots of code DRYing. Performance improvements, particularly for data packages. Many filter/facet additions with more options for batch updating. Lots of UI QoL improvements. Bugs squashed.

    #catalogueoflife
  14. Donald Hobern @[email protected]

    Major updates this month to #GlobalLepidopteraIndex:

    Mimallonidae completely updated (127 additional #species) including all recent literature.

    Notodontidae updated to new subfamily classification (doi.org/10.5479/si.28912337).

    Genus Simplicia (Herminiinae) updated to match new revision (doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5631.)

    229 additional species (and hundreds of names and combinations) have been added this month.

    These updates will flow into this month's #CatalogueOfLife and then into @gbif and other online platforms.

    For more information, see:

    checklistbank.org/dataset/5543

    #taxonomy #biodiversity #entomology #Lepidoptera #classification #moths

    #globallepidopteraindex #catalogueoflife #species #taxonomy #biodiversity #entomology
  15. Donald Hobern @[email protected]

    Attending the symposium Contruyendo El Catálogo de la Vida: Una perspectiva de País at
    Instituto de Ciencias Naturales Universidad Nacional de #Colombia here in Bogotá.

    Slides in English. Presentations in Spanish.

    m.youtube.com/watch?v=bmnOnlPC

    #CatalogueOfLife #biodiversity #species #data @gbif

    #colombia #catalogueoflife #biodiversity #species #data
  16. Donald Hobern @[email protected]

    Created my first small (and not widely useful) repository on @Codeberg today. It's from the hackathon this week with @TaxonWorks to improve interoperability of taxonomic data tools.

    The code is a small Python program to serialise #CatalogueOfLife data packages as a "tape" of objects that can be handled atomically in order by a processor in another tool. This is really just a first step towards more automation for the #GlobalLepidopteraIndex.

    codeberg.org/dhobern/tapeworm

    checklistbank.org/dataset/5543

    #catalogueoflife #globallepidopteraindex
  17. TaxonWorks @taxonworks

    Released 0.47.0. Changelog: github.com/SpeciesFileGroup/ta

    Copy/paste edits from spreadsheets to custom DataAttributes. Data Package improvements. Digitization optimizations. Multifurcating keys! Numerous bug fixes and backend updates (#Rails, ).

    #catalogueoflife #rails #ruby
  18. GBIF @[email protected]

    Expanding the GBIF #HostedPortals programme in 3...2...1! 🚀

    ⭐ The #EuropeanJournalOfTaxonomy has become the first scientific journal to launch a GBIF hosted portal! ⭐

    🔗gbif.link/ejt-hp

    @plazi_species #CatalogueOfLife #ChecklistBank

    🦎 Paratype of Cyrtodactylus chungi, Ostrowski et al., 2021

    #hostedportals #europeanjournaloftaxonomy #catalogueoflife #checklistbank
  19. Donald Hobern @[email protected]

    I updated #CatalogueOfLife following a new paper from last Friday on the genus #Promalactis (small nicely marked #moths in #Oecophoridae):

    doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5536.

    COL only had 78 listed species for the genus. The new paper referenced many other publications with new species in Promalactis, mostly from Asia. The count is now 447 species, with 372 first described in the years since 2000.

    This will enhance #DataManagement in @gbif and other online platforms.

    #Entomology #Lepidoptera #taxonomy

    #taxonomy #lepidoptera #entomology #datamanagement #oecophoridae #moths
  20. Donald Hobern @[email protected]

    Today, I've updated the Global #Lepidoptera Index (source for #moths and #butterflies in #CatalogueOfLife) to include all described species of the small Gondwanan (South America, South Africa, New Zealand) family #Cecidosidae. The caterpillars are gall-forming insects in various plants.

    Going through all the relevant papers, I'm amazed how cute the pupal stage of some of these insects is - like tiny brown penguins.

    Image from Silva et al. 2018: doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.795.27

    #entomology #taxonomy

    #taxonomy #entomology #cecidosidae #catalogueoflife #butterflies #moths
  21. Donald Hobern @[email protected]

    An updated checklist of geometrid #moths (~14% of all moths) was published last year as the Online #Taxonomic Facility of #Geometridae

    geometroidea.smns-bw.org/intro

    The data are now also in #ChecklistBank and will replace the current outdated #LepIndex list in #CatalogueOfLife, @gbif, etc.

    I've also edited #Notodontidae in the @TaxonWorks Global Lepidoptera Index dataset at least to match Schintlmeister's 2013 catalogue (now handling later works):

    checklistbank.org/dataset/5543

    #Lepidoptera #entomology

    #entomology #lepidoptera #notodontidae #catalogueoflife #lepindex #checklistbank
  22. Donald Hobern @[email protected]

    Just learned of another recently separated family of moths that I'd missed. #Pseudobistonidae now contains two species, one formerly classified as Lymantriinae and one as Geometrinae. The new family sits in the Geometroidea.

    Firewalled (☹️ ) journal articles here from 2015 and 2019:

    doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12108

    doi.org/10.1111/syen.12326

    I've updated the #GlobalLepidopteraIndex so it should be correct in #CatalogueOfLife and @gbif very soon.

    #Lepidoptera #entomology #taxonomy #SpeciesLists

    #specieslists #taxonomy #entomology #lepidoptera #catalogueoflife #globallepidopteraindex
  23. Donald Hobern @[email protected]

    The family #Scranciidae has now been updated in the #GlobalLepidopteraIndex and is available in #ChecklistBank.

    checklistbank.org/dataset/5543

    This classification should be included in next month's #CatalogueOfLife checklist and then be available to @gbif for organising occurrence data.

    22 #genera, 122 #species, 11 #subspecies, 279 names in total:

    checklistbank.org/dataset/5543

    #taxonomy #Lepidoptera #entomology

    #entomology #lepidoptera #taxonomy #subspecies #species #genera
  24. GBIF 🌱 @[email protected]

    We've signed an agreement with #Species2000—the body responsible for the Catalogue of Life #catalogueoflife #COL—to serve as administrative host for its Secretariat, strengthening our collaboration on taxonomic data through COL, #ChecklistBank & elsewhere:
    gbif.org/news/5LO3xYHTbo53rB8U

    #species2000 #catalogueoflife #col #checklistbank
  25. Donald Hobern @[email protected]

    Wide support for what most people probably assume already exists - a trusted and comprehensive list of the world's described species:

    pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2306

    Piece in @theconversationau on these results:

    theconversation.com/we-need-a-

    @gbif #CatalogueOfLife

    #catalogueoflife
  26. Donald Hobern @[email protected]

    Another update to Global Lepidoptera Index / #CatalogueOfLife / @gbif - the family #Psychidae (#bagworm #moths):

    stangeia.hobern.net/updating-g

    The vast majority of names for this group in the old LepIndex dataset are no longer considered current. The update added 30% more accepted species for the family.

    #moths #bagworm #psychidae #catalogueoflife
  27. Donald Hobern @[email protected]

    I shut myself away and updated the checklist dataset (Global Lepidoptera Index) that feeds species names into #CatalogueOfLife and @gbif for the moth subfamily Elachistinae (based on Lauri Kaila's 2019 catalogue: doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4632.).

    This modernises perhaps 1/300th of the #Lepidoptera names in COL but serves to highlight just how much work is needed to produce a truly comprehensive and modern list for biodiversity informatics usage.

    My blog post reviews the case: stangeia.hobern.net/updating-g

    #lepidoptera #catalogueoflife
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