#globallepidopteraindex — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #globallepidopteraindex, aggregated by home.social.
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Major updates this month to #GlobalLepidopteraIndex:
Mimallonidae completely updated (127 additional #species) including all recent literature.
Notodontidae updated to new subfamily classification (https://doi.org/10.5479/si.28912337).
Genus Simplicia (Herminiinae) updated to match new revision (https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5631.3.2)
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:
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/55434/about
#taxonomy #biodiversity #entomology #Lepidoptera #classification #moths
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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.
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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:
https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12108
https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12326
I've updated the #GlobalLepidopteraIndex so it should be correct in #CatalogueOfLife and @gbif very soon.
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The family #Scranciidae has now been updated in the #GlobalLepidopteraIndex and is available in #ChecklistBank.
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/55434/taxon/235153
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: