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)
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