Losaria/Pachliopta/Parides
Some ambiguity over the current understanding of these genera. Compare LepIndex v GenBank v Checklist. Need to look into this later.
Some ambiguity over the current understanding of these genera. Compare LepIndex v GenBank v Checklist. Need to look into this later.
Now updated the species pages for the first three genera of Papilionidae: Graphium, Lamproptera and Meandrusa
Wonder if they'll be any butterfly talks happening.
Today I started looking into the Papilionidae and have so far finished the genus Chilasa. Currently it seems Chilasa is considered a synonym of Papilio. Based on how long it took me with these 4 species, this family is going to take a lot of work.
Yesterday I recieved a reply from Ian Kitching at the NHM's LepIndex informing me that the kausambioides record has been corrected. He also says that the system is being upgraded to Species File (http://software.speciesfile.org/HomePage.aspx ?) sometime soon. I am wondering how this will affect the links I'm adding to this scratchpad.
In total 7 genera and 17 species. None have public barcodes on GenBank.
No Riodinidae butterflies were collected by K.H.M. Chia, C.D. Chen and M. Sofian-Azirun (2011).
Les Day (Samui butterflies) has some of these butterflies covered.
Chin Fah Shin has 12 Riodinidae species covered (listed as a subfamily of Lycaenidae).
The Pieridae genus names have all been checked against the NHM database and author names and years added to the current taxonomy pane.
The genus names for Papilionidae have now all been checked against and linked to the NHM Generic name and type-species database.
I have also added the references to the ITIS names. I have been through the "taxonomy" of Papilionidae and Pieridae, and now all the ranks are set correctly as family, genus or species.
For todays session on the scratchpad, I concentrated on the Riodinidae:
1) I checked all the Genus names against the NHM database
2) I started checking the species names against the LepIndex. I have found a few cases that need further attention, where the name doesn't match with the LepIndex but seems to be in general use (linked to this post). For this I will have to try and check the original descriptions. I have emailed George Beccaloni at LepIndex (13/2/2012) with my observations, but got an automated reply that he is out of the office until April.
Added my first specimen to the scratchpad to get an idea what the species mash-up will look like with specimen information. The first specimen record came from BOLD of an hesperiid collected in Thailand. I am having problems getting the images to appear, even though they upload fine.