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WikiProject Lepidoptera

The aim of this WikiProject is to set out broad suggestions about how to organize data in the articles relating to the insect order Lepidoptera which comprises the Butterflies and Moths. We also hope to encourage the development of important stubs and articles following these suggestions which are not obligatory except in the case of WikiProject Lepidoptera Article Guidelines. These guidelines are being formulated as policy to give a more uniform look, feel and organisation to WP Lepidoptera articles and are in the process of being developed through discussion and consensus on the Project talk page. In the case of these guidelines (when formulated) editors are expected to follow with exceptions to be discussed on the Project talk page before implementation.

Parentage

This WikiProject is an offshoot of WikiProject Tree of Life

WikiProject Science

WikiProject Biology

WikiProject Tree of Life

WikiProject Animals

WikiProject Arthropods

WikiProject Insects

WikiProject Lepidoptera

• Portal:Biology

Participants

To become a member, just add yourself in the right place to this alphabetical list.

• Alan Cassidy
• AshLin
• Aviceda
• Bastique
• Benthebutterflyguy
• Nickrz
• Calibas
• D. Gordon E. Robertson — butterflies of Canada
• Guy Manners
• Hectonichus
• Roger Kendrick (a.k.a. HKmoths)
• IronC* hris | (talk)
• IvanTortuga
• JamesDouch
• J.M.Garg
• J.R.Fe.P. — butterflies of Venezuela
• Kugamazog
• MasterOfHisOwnDomain
• Meganmccarty
• Merenta
• minirolls1991 -want to expand the phymatopus page for a university project
• Neilj
• NielsenGW
• Notafly Robert Nash
• Noym
• Quantumobserver
• Richard Barlow
• Glacierman
• Ruigeroeland
• Santosh Namby Chandran
• Shyamal
• Stemonitis
• Umbris
• Vijay Barve
• Vitaly Charny
• Wilhelmina Will — I've recently created several articles on species from the moth genus Prays, and intend on creating many more, as well as many pages on many other moth/butterfly species.
• Wloveral (talk) — Butterflies from the Amazon, and butterfly conservation generally
• Walter Siegmund t
• Mishae (talk) 02:36, 20 February 2012 (UTC) — Moths of America, and Moths in general

WikiProject Guidelines

As of date, the following guidelines have been established with consensus after reasoned debate in WikiProject Lepidoptera and should be followed. In case of exceptions please discuss first on the talk page.

• Article importance grading scheme.

Format for article

A suggested format for articles on Lepidoptera is given in the Article formats page.

See Commander Limenitis procris and Imperial Moth Eacles imperialis as an example of a typical species account.

Some species have extremely little information and are virtually little more than stubs, so most of these headings are deleted. See Imperial Apollo Parnassius imperator augustus as an example. Such species in a single genus probably would merit consolidation in the near future, as per the accepted usage.

In some cases, the species has additional interesting information which merits separate sections and sub-sections. These are issues such as taxonomy, polymorphy, mimicry, ant-association, migration or any such feature characteristic to that species and warranting a detailed treatment by itself. Hence additional headings are provided on an as-required basis. The sequence of headings, sections and sub-sections may also be changed to represent the information in the best and most convenient manner possible.

See Plain Tiger Danaus chrysippus and Common Mormon Papilio polytes as such examples.

Article assessment and quality

Lepidoptera articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA				2			2
FM					114		114
GA	3	6	6	12			27
B	1	31	16	77			125
C		13	38	521		1	573
Start		56	114	1,748		4	1,922
Stub		2	567	95,530		3	96,102
List	2	102	23	595	1	6	729
Category					2,994		2,994
Disambig					112		112
File					10		10
Project					30		30
Redirect		1	42	3,505	2,657		6,205
Template					10,292		10,292
NA					6		6
Other					2		2
Assessed	6	211	806	101,990	16,218	14	119,245
Total	6	211	806	101,990	16,218	14	119,245
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 588,943			Ω = 5.96

Featured articles

• Chrysiridia rhipheus
• Henry Edwards (entomologist)

Good articles

• Lepidoptera
• External morphology of Lepidoptera
• Abantiades latipennis
• Lulworth Skipper

Progress

/Checklist

Categorisation of articles

Draft guidelines for categorisation will help you to categorise the articles sensibly and consistently.

Goals

One key aim is to set an extremely high standard of writing quality and user-friendliness in this project.

Use of media and level of detail

The articles try to display as many relevant images as possible. The aim being to be as useful and encyclopedic as is necessary. We would like to have, and in some cases, we have been able to obtain photos of :

• Adult (imago), egg, larva (or caterpillar) and Chrysalis (pupa or coccoon).
• Male and female forms, UP and UN. Polymorphic forms. Mimic forms.
• Butterflies and moths involved in activitites such as nectar-sipping, mud-puddling, mating, basking, migration etc.
• Comparison of photos between models and mimics.
• Photos of any other aspect of natural history relevant such as host-plant or parasites.
• Drawings or illustrations from old books, paintings or sculpture.

In the future we would like to attach video clips, list of common and vernacular names, distribution maps and comparison galleries to ease species identification.

Tasks

Task Set 1 - Get the basic framework up

• Prepare viable checklists for each family of Lepidoptera.
• Get the taxonomic check done through various resources:
  • http://www.ucl.ac.uk/taxome/gbn/ may eventually be the primary database to lookup
  • WikiSpecies pages on Lepidoptera are growing, so check Lepidoptera overall or Butterflies to see what has been posted on this sister Wiki project.
  • LEPINDEX (). (N.B., LepIndex is not 100% accurate (though very close to it!), nor very up-to-date. Where recent authoritative publications post date the taxonomy in LepIndex, use and cite them.)
  • Marrku Savela's site - Lepidoptera and some other life forms.(N.B. Incomplete and incorrect at places, a collection of disparate data; good for a quick and dirty overview).
  • Tree of Life Web site (TOLWeb) (Basically lists of species in genera. Suitable for seeing which species are presently considered valid by the panel of experts for that family/subfamily/genera).
  • WikiSpecies pages on Lepidoptera are growing, so check there to see what has been posted on this sister Wiki project.
  • van Nieukirken et al., 2011. Order Lepidoptera Linnaeus, 1758. In:Zhang, Z.-Q. (ed.) Animal Biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Zootaxa 3148: 212-221.
• Place the stubs.
• Prepare articles to extent possible up to the required standard.
• Place images suitably captioned.

Task Set 2 - Improve general standard of the project

• Get maximum information, images, links and references for each article. Each article to be made up to required standard.
• Get a recording for spoken Misplaced Pages for each stable article.
• Get short videos appropriately for each article, convert to Ogg Theora, place on WM Commons and link up on the articles.
• Get maps ready for each species and place in each article.

Article and task requests

• Sloth moth, aka Bradipodicola hahneli  Done AshLin (talk) 08:57, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
• Category:Misplaced Pages requested photographs of insecta
  • Category:Misplaced Pages requested photographs of lepidopterans (but many are still in the parent category)

WikiProject cleanup listing

I have created together with Smallman12q a toolserver tool that shows a weekly-updated list of cleanup categories for WikiProjects, that can be used as a replacement for WolterBot and this WikiProject is among those that are already included (because it is a member of Category:WolterBot cleanup listing subscriptions). See

• the tool's wiki page,
• this project's listing in one big table
• by categories *the index of WikiProjects.

Svick (talk) 20:14, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

Templates

Stub templates

• {{butterfly-stub}}

for example, placing the stub on a page gives the following effect :-

This butterfly-related article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

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It also places the associated stub category Category:Moth stubs on the page.

• {{moth-stub}}

for example, placing the stub on a page gives the following effect :-

This moth-related article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

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It also places the associated stub category Category:Moth stubs on the page.

Aside - the butterfly-stub shows a Blue Morpho butterfly, a nymphalid, while the moth-stub depicts an Atlas moth, a saturniid moth.

We now have stubs for many Lepidoptera superfamilies/families. See here for the full list.

Talk page template

Please place {{WikiProject Lepidoptera|class=article_quality|importance=article_importance|needs-photo=}} at the top of an article's talk page. This will help to direct editors to the WikiProject Lepidoptera mainpage for guidance. The arguments to be filled for importance and quality can be found at Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Lepidoptera/Article Classification. The value "article_quality" is a measure of the quality of the concerned article and will be one of the following: FA, GA, A, B, B, C, Start, Stub, List or Category. Similarly, "article_importance" is one of: top, high, mid or low. The "needs-photo" item if given a value of "yes" will indicate that a photograph is needed. An example of a WikiProject template with values of "B" for quality and "high" for importance and "yes" for needing a photograph will look like this:

and will produce this :

Lepidoptera B‑class High‑importance

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Lepidoptera, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of butterflies and moths on Misplaced Pages. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.LepidopteraWikipedia:WikiProject LepidopteraTemplate:WikiProject LepidopteraLepidoptera B This article has been rated as B-class on Misplaced Pages's content assessment scale. High This article has been rated as High-importance on the project's importance scale. An editor has requested that an image or photograph be added to this article.

Lepidoptera families listbox template

• {{Lepidoptera}}

This template creates a box listing the families of Lepidoptera and provides a navigational aid. It also indicates by red links those families which do not have a wiki at all. This template is recommended for taxonomy wikis (above species level), checklists and general articles on Lepidoptera.

Placing this template on a page results in a box as shown below:-

there's also the superfamily template, incorporating some of the historical and hobbyist terminology (not for taxonomic use)

v t e Arthropoda - Insecta - Superfamilies of Lepidoptera
Butterflies	Hedyloidea Hesperioidea Papilionoidea
Larger Moths	Bombycoidea Calliduloidea Cimelioidea Drepanoidea Geometroidea Immoidea Lasiocampoidea Mimallonoidea Noctuoidea Sphingoidea
Microlepidoptera	Monotrysia Andesianoidea Adeloidea Palaephatoidea Nepticuloidea Tischerioidea Ditrysian micros Acanthopteroctetoidea Alucitoidea Choreutoidea Copromorphoidea Cossoidea Epermenioidea Galacticoidea Gelechioidea Gracillarioidea Hyblaeoidea Pterophoroidea Pyraloidea Schreckensteinioidea Sesioidea Simaethistoidea Thyridoidea Tineoidea Tortricoidea Urodoidea Whalleyanoidea Yponomeutoidea Zygaenoidea Basal lineages Agathiphagoidea Eriocranioidea Hepialoidea Heterobathmioidea Lophocoronoidea Micropterigoidea Mnesarchaeoidea Neopseustoidea

WikiProject Lepidoptera Userbox

{{User WPLepidoptera}}

results in:

This user is a member of Wikiproject Lepidoptera

WikiProject Lepidoptera barnstar

{{subst:Lep-star|message ~~~~}}

results in:

		The Wikiproject Lepidoptera Barnstar
		For editors who have contributed greatly to Wikiproject Lepidoptera

Important Lists

• Category:Regional butterfly lists
• Category:Lists of Lepidoptera by food
• List of moths
• Sphingidae species list

Important Articles

Please see Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Lepidoptera/Articles.

Adopt an article

• Wolterbot has added WikiProject Lepidoptera to its subscribed service. Find articles to work on here :
  • Wolterbot's project listing in one big table
  • Wolterbot's project listing by categories
• Keep watch on project articles here using Tim12357's WikiProject Watchlist.
• Article alerts for this WikiProject can be found here.

Resources

Resources provided by participants of this Project

• Project Library - A collection of sources from participants of the project.
• List species authors with wikilinks.
• Biographies of naturalists (including Lepidoptersts).
• Glossary of terms connected with Lepidoptera.
• List of foodplants of Lepidoptera (under preparation).
• Bingham's Fauna of British India (Butterflies).

Project subpages

For a complete list of Project subpages see here.

• Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Lepidoptera/To do
• Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Lepidoptera/Log
• Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Lepidoptera/Articles
• Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Lepidoptera/Article Classification
• Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Lepidoptera/Unidentified pictures
• Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Lepidoptera/Unclear facts
• Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Lepidoptera/Family taxobox example
• Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Lepidoptera/Genus taxobox example
• Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Lepidoptera/Species taxobox example
• Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Lepidoptera/List of Lepidopterologists

also relevant

• Category:Unassessed_Lepidoptera_articles

Online

• Tree of Life website.
• LepIndex 'LepIndex'Project of National Museum of Natural History, London. It is recommended that LepIndex be used as the authoratative reference to check Lepidoptera taxonomy. Queries on the site can be placed at : .

How to cite LepIndex

• Usage of data from LepIndex in scientific publications should be acknowledged using the following format:

Beccaloni, G. W., Scoble, M. J., Robinson, G. S. & Pitkin, B. (Editors). 2003. The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex). World Wide Web electronic publication. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/entomology/lepindex .

• If you wish to cite any unpublished information from LepIndex then please credit the person responsible for it (presuming the name of an individual is given). For example, on the card for bibarra Chu & Wang, 1991 there is a pencil annotation by M. Shaffer written in 1991, which indicates that he transferred this species to the genus CANAEA (thus CANAEA bibarra is an unpublished or MS combination). The citation should therefore be as follows:-

Shaffer, M. In: Beccaloni, G. W., Scoble, M. J., Robinson, G. S. & Pitkin, B. (Editors). 2003. The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex). World Wide Web electronic publication. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/entomology/lepindex .

• Note, however, that some of the 'manuscript changes' written on the cards may have subsequently been published. It is therefore advisable to contact the person responsible for the annotation and ask whether or not this is the case. Note that Mike Shaffer, responsible for many of the manuscript notes in Pyraloidea and Thyridoidea has passed away. Thorough literature searches will be needed to establish if there have been published name changes, but also check the Globiz Pyraloidea database.

• Lepidopteran caterpillar hosts database Another project of the Natural History Museum. It is a database of larval foodplants of butterflies. You can search by butterfly_name, butterfly_family_name, plant_name, plant_family_name and country/region.
• Another interesting taxonomy project from Finland! The gentleman, Markku Savela, uses perl scripts to generate rough distribution maps from the text data on distribution. The site is at :
• Häuser, Christoph L. (28th July 2005). "Papilionidae – revised GloBIS/GART species checklist (2nd draft)". Retrieved 24 October 2010. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)

Print

• Charles A. Triplehorn, Norman F. Johnson Borror and DeLong's introduction to the study of insects, 7th edition, Thomson Brooks/Cole, 2005 - Excellent reference for insects. The keys are for North-America but can apply also to European insects.

• Kristensen, N.P. (Ed.). 1999. Lepidoptera, Moths and Butterflies. Volume 1: Evolution, Systematics, and Biogeography. Handbuch der Zoologie. Eine Naturgeschichte der Stämme des Tierreiches / Handbook of Zoology. A Natural History of the phyla of the Animal Kingdom. Band / Volume IV Arthropoda: Insecta Teilband / Part 35: 491 pp. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York. For taxonomy...

• Scoble, MJ. 1995. The Lepidoptera: Form Function and Diversity. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-854952-0 Excellent for Lep biology. However, Scoble seems to have changed his mind about some of the taxonomy: here, he has Geometroidea and Uranioidea, but in his chapter in Kristensen, he has Uraniidae and Sematuriidae in Geometroidea.

Sister Project Searches

• WikiBooks search
• Google WikiBooks search
• WikiQuote search
• Google WikiQuote search
• WikiSource search
• Google WikiSource search

Web sites helping identification

• Nearctica.com for NMorth American butterflies
• Neotropical Butterflies for Central and South America – post images to the relevant country forum for appropriate feedback

Sister Project links

External links

• Wikiproject Watchlist - WikiProject Lepidoptera

• WikiProject Lepidoptera
• WikiProject Arthropods