Participating in a #SpeciesList software #hackathon with the @TaxonWorks team at the #IllinoisNaturalHistorySurvey in #Champaign. Currently looking at ways to stream components of a species list so they can be imported as easily as possible into different databases, including as update patches. This should simplify interoperability between TaxonWorks and #ChecklistBank and help with processing updates from journal articles.

Expanding the GBIF #HostedPortals programme in 3...2...1! 🚀

⭐ The #EuropeanJournalOfTaxonomy has become the first scientific journal to launch a GBIF hosted portal! ⭐

🔗https://gbif.link/ejt-hp

@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@scicomm.xyz

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@scicomm.xyz

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The data are now also in #ChecklistBank and will replace the current outdated #LepIndex list in #CatalogueOfLife, @gbif, etc.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):

https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/55434/about

#Lepidoptera #entomology

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:

https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/2207/taxon/6

#Lepidoptera #Alucitidae #taxonomy #entomology

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:

https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/55434/names?TAXON_ID=235153&facet=rank&facet=issue&facet=status&facet=nomStatus&facet=nameType&facet=field&facet=authorship&facet=authorshipYear&facet=extinct&facet=environment&facet=origin&limit=50&offset=0&sortBy=taxonomic

#taxonomy #Lepidoptera #entomology

We've signed an agreement with #Species2000—the body responsible for the Catalogue of Life #catalogueoflife #COL—to serve as administrative host for its Secretariat, strengthening our collaboration on taxonomic data through COL, #ChecklistBank & elsewhere:
https://www.gbif.org/news/5LO3xYHTbo53rB8UwcSpgA/