Expanding the GBIF #HostedPortals programme in 3...2...1! 🚀
⭐ The #EuropeanJournalOfTaxonomy has become the first scientific journal to launch a GBIF hosted portal! ⭐
@plazi_species #CatalogueOfLife #ChecklistBank
🦎 Paratype of Cyrtodactylus chungi, Ostrowski et al., 2021
Catalogue of the Alucitoidea of the World updated.
New combination and generic placement for many-plume species in China and Russia
https://doi.org/10.25221/fee.517.2
Includes a few new distribution records too.
This feeds into #CatalogueOfLife and @gbif.
Latest version available on #ChecklistBank:
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/2207/about
#Lepidoptera #Pterophoridae #taxonomy #entomology #NewSpecies #BiodiversityInformatics @dhobern
Catalogue of the Pterophoroidea of the World updated.
New #PlumeMoth species from #SouthAfrica, Agistis zagulajevi:
https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873824040080
Changes to synonymy and new distribution records from #Georgia:
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14720696
This feeds into #CatalogueOfLife and @gbif.
Latest version available on #ChecklistBank:
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/1199/about
#Lepidoptera #Pterophoridae #taxonomy #entomology #NewSpecies #BiodiversityInformatics @dhobern
An updated checklist of geometrid #moths (~14% of all moths) was published last year as the Online #Taxonomic Facility of #Geometridae
https://geometroidea.smns-bw.org/introduction
The data are now also in #ChecklistBank and will replace the current outdated #LepIndex list in #CatalogueOfLife, @gbif, etc.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):
New paper today describes nine new many-plume #moth #species:
https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1193.111544
With Alucita megaphimus also restored from synonymy, this increases the number of species described globally for the family from 259 to 269. I've updated the global catalogue:
https://alucitoidea.hobern.net/catalogue.php
The data are also now in #ChecklistBank ready to update #CatalogurOfLife (and then @gbif) next month:
This study confirms Mount Cameroon as an unprecedented hotspot for the diversity of many-plumed moths, with the discovery and description of nine new species: Alucita fako Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, sp. nov., Alucita pyrczi Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, sp. nov., Alucita sroczki Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, sp. nov., Alucita potockyi Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, sp. nov., Alucita sedlaceki Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, sp. nov., Alucita tonda Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, sp. nov., Alucita erzayi Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, sp. nov., Alucita sokolovi Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, sp. nov., and Alucita hirsuta Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, sp. nov. Additionally, four additional species are reported from the Mount Cameroon area as new for the country: Alucita agassizi, Alucita dohertyi, Alucita plumigera, and Alucita rhaptica. Of the 89 Alucitidae known from the Afrotropics, the studied area hosts 36 species, most of which are endemic to the area. This unprecedented level of diversity and endemism within this lepidopteran family highlights Mount Cameroon’s significance as a stronghold for specialised insect taxa. Efficient conservation efforts are necessary to protect these ecosystems and their associated unique microlepidopteran diversity.
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:
Donald Hobern
GBIF
ArandaMoths
GBIF 🌱