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

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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, https://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), https://dx.doi.org/10.37828/em.2025.87.1

Fibiger et al. 2007, Amphipyrinae - Xyleninae

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

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), https://dx.doi.org/10.37828/em.2025.87.2

Lafontaine et al. 2010, Review of the New World genera of the subfamily Acontiinae (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae), https://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

Here's a cute caterpillar doing its best to disrupt your feed. This is the Shag Carpet Caterpillar Moth (Prothysana sp.). As an adult, it is sorta a drab triangular brown thing, but as a larva, I find it resplendent. Its larval scales are way cooler than the adult ones.

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