{"id":20625,"date":"2024-01-14T16:23:41","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T00:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=20625"},"modified":"2024-01-14T16:23:41","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T00:23:41","slug":"2024-january-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=20625","title":{"rendered":"2024 January 14"},"content":{"rendered":"

2024 January 14<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jeremy Tatum writes:<\/p>\n

Viewers will have often read or heard me lament that no two books have the same English or scientific names for butterflies and moths.\u00a0 This makes for all sorts of difficulties with Invert Alert.\u00a0 Do I change the names every time I learn of a change?\u00a0 Or do I use one name for all time and stick to it?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I think I now have an answer to this.<\/p>\n

I have just received a copy of the huge, magnificent, comprehensive Annotated Taxonomic Checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America North of Mexico <\/em>edited by Gregory Pohl and Stephen Nanz.\u00a0\u00a0 (I\u2019ll call it the ATC<\/em> here.) It comprises about 13,000 species. Of course, this will not be the last word, and further changes are inevitable in the future.\u00a0 But this is a sufficiently keystone work that will be a standard for years to come.<\/p>\n

I shall not attempt to go back and relabel all the photographs that have been posted in Invertebrate Alert over the last dozen years or so.\u00a0 However, from now (i.e. 2024) onwards, I shall endeavour to use, in Invertebrate Alert, the scientific names in the ATC<\/em>.\u00a0 I shall also endeavour to re-organize and re-write the Index to Invertebrate Alert according to the ATC <\/em>\u00a0– but this will take some time \u2013 I\u2019ll work on it from time to time over the next few weeks (months?)\u00a0\u00a0 The ATC<\/em> does not deal at all with English names, so for the time being we\u2019ll continue with the English names that we are used to.<\/p>\n

Some problem species that comes to mind are:<\/p>\n

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Cedar Hairstreak<\/strong>.\u00a0 I have hitherto been using, in Invertebrate Alert, the name Mitoura rosneri<\/em>.\u00a0 From henceforth I shall be calling it, following the ATC<\/em>, Callophrys gryneus<\/em>.\u00a0 The ATC<\/em> includes Mitoura <\/em>and Incisalia<\/em> as subgenera within Callophrys.<\/em><\/p>\n

Brown Elfin.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>ATC <\/em>does not distinguish at the species level (as do Guppy and Shepard) between Brown and Western Elfins.\u00a0 \u00a0From now on, in Invertebrate Alert, ours will be called Brown Elfin Callophrys augustinus<\/em> , no longer Incisalia iroides<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Erannis<\/em>. \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>This is listed in ATC<\/em> under E. vancouverensis.\u00a0 <\/em>I am personally not yet fully convinced that the Erannis<\/em> that we get here isn\u2019t European E. defoliaria<\/em>.\u00a0 I think in future Alerts I\u2019ll stick to the safe side and label our moths just Erannis <\/em>sp.<\/p>\n

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Coryphista meadii\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>is henceforth Rheumaptera meadii<\/em>.\u00a0 That will take a bit of getting used to!<\/p>\n

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As the year rolls on, I\u2019ll doubtless discover a few others \u2013 these are the first few that came immediately to mind.<\/p>\n

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When may we expect to see the first noctuid this year?\u00a0 Egira hiemalis<\/em> is usually first seen around mid-February.\u00a0 There are, however, several January sightings in Invertebrate Alert, the earliest being January 19\u00a0 (last year, as it happens).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2024 January 14 Jeremy Tatum writes: Viewers will have often read or heard me lament that no two books have the same English or scientific names for butterflies and moths.\u00a0 This makes for all sorts of difficulties with Invert Alert.\u00a0 Do I change the names every time I learn of a change?\u00a0 Or do I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-invertebrate-alert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20626,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20625\/revisions\/20626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}