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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 edit
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
- WikiProject Insects
- WikiProject Arthropods
- WikiProject Animals
- WikiProject Tree of Life
- WikiProject Biology
- Portal:Biology
Participants edit
To become a member, just add yourself in the right place to this alphabetical list.
- Aaron Lox - working on the Phryganodes pages
- AddWittyNameHere - have access to approximately 70 printed books about Lepidoptera, some in German, some in Dutch, some in English. Most are Europe-centred.
- Agapema - here to help contribute where possible, with a main focus on (you guessed it) the Agapema genus.
- Alexlu5418 - I like butterfly and moths and I like moths the most
- Ambrosia10 - Lepidoptera of New Zealand
- AncylurisFormosissima Focused on butterflies in Oregon, USA and in the American tropics.
- AshLin
- AWolfSpider
- Bastique
- Bfpage/Barbara (WVS)-I am continuing to add references to the Monarch Butterfly
- BIRDSANDBUGS - working on creating pages for various moths, mainly saturniidae.
- Calibas
- Charlesjsharp - Special interest in photography - Sharp Photography
- Daniel Mietchen
- D. Gordon E. Robertson
- Dr Mel Ganus from wikiBlind.org - we can help with image descriptions
- Firos AK
- Foiled circuitous wanderer
- FozzieH
- Friesen5000 - Leps of Canada
- Glacierman
- Gug01
- Guy Manners
- Hectonichus
- Himalayacetus - Pyraloidea globally
- Roger Kendrick (a.k.a. HKmoths)
- Jkadavoor
- J.M.Garg
- Jowaninpensans - mines
- J.R.Fe.P. — butterflies of Venezuela
- Leiobunum rotundum - works on different moth pages, lepidoptera illustrator.
- Leomk0403
- Loopy30
- Manoj Karingamadathil
- MasterOfHisOwnDomain
- Merenta
- Metacladistics - Butterflies of Sulawesi -- adding images of pinned specimens
- Million Moments - pest species
- MrX
- Neilj
- Nickrz
- Notafly Robert Nash
- Ornithoptera
- ProbablyAPineapple
- User:Dr. Raju Kasambe
- Rfairb - Planning to contribute to entomologist & curator pages, cleanup for species and family pages
- Riparia riparia - Natural history
- User:redwoodsoda moth
- Resilientricekrispy - Focusing on skippers and cleaning up species pages
- Sandew LA - Interested in butterflies of Sri Lanka
- Seacactus 13
- Sebastiaan van Doorn - Mostly Lepidoptera orientated independent entomologist hoping to contribute on Palearctic species, but willing to look way further.
- Shyamal
- Squirkl - Moth enjoyer & budding naturalist
- Stemonitis
- Tony Holkham - Lepidoptera of Britain and Ireland
- Vijay Barve
- Walter Siegmund t
- 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.
Inactive edit
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Editors who have not edited anywhere on en.wiki since April 2021
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WikiProject guidelines edit
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 edit
A suggested format for articles on Lepidoptera is given in the Article formats page.
See Moduza procris (commander) and Eacles imperialis (imperial moth) as examples of typical species accounts.
Some species have extremely little information and are little more than stubs, so most of these headings are deleted. See Parnassius imperator augustus (imperial Apollo) 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 Danaus chrysippus (plain tiger) and Papilio polytes (common Mormon) as such examples.
Article assessment and quality edit
| Lepidoptera articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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| Quality | Importance | ||||||
| Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
 FA
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2 | 2 | |||||
| FM
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105 | 105 | |||||
 GA
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3 | 5 | 6 | 12 | 26 | ||
| B | 1 | 31 | 16 | 77 | 125 | ||
| C | 11 | 37 | 471 | 519 | |||
| Start | 57 | 116 | 1,650 | 2 | 1,825 | ||
| Stub | 2 | 569 | 95,613 | 3 | 96,187 | ||
| List | 2 | 102 | 20 | 591 | 1 | 5 | 721 |
| Category | 2,990 | 2,990 | |||||
| Disambig | 2 | 108 | 110 | ||||
| File | 10 | 10 | |||||
| Project | 1 | 29 | 30 | ||||
| Redirect | 1 | 42 | 3,507 | 2,617 | 6,167 | ||
| Template | 7,501 | 7,501 | |||||
| Other | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Assessed | 6 | 209 | 806 | 101,926 | 13,362 | 10 | 116,319 |
| Unassessed | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Total | 6 | 209 | 806 | 101,926 | 13,363 | 10 | 116,320 |
| WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 588,750 | Ω = 5.97 | |||||
Monitoring edit
New articles edit
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This list was generated from these rules. Questions and feedback are always welcome! The search is being run daily with the most recent ~14 days of results. Note: Some articles may not be relevant to this project. Rules | Match log | Results page (for watching) | Last updated: 2024-04-25 21:04 (UTC) Note: The list display can now be customized by each user. See List display personalization for details.
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Article alerts edit
Articles to be split
- 08 Jan 2024 – Dudgeonea (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Jlwoodwa (t · c); see discussion
Articles needing cleanup edit
- Lepidoptera articles with maintenance and cleanup category listings
Popular pages edit
Wikipedia:WikiProject Lepidoptera/Popular pages
Progress edit
/Checklist
Goals edit
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 edit
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 cocoon).
- Male and female forms, polymorphic forms, mimic forms, dorsal and ventral views.
- Butterflies and moths involved in activities 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 edit
Task Set 1 - Get the basic framework up edit
- 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 ([1] Archived 2008-04-09 at the Wayback Machine). (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.)
- Markku 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. [open access paper published in December 2011]
- 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 edit
- Get maximum information, images, links and references for each article. Each article to be made up to required standard.
- Get a recording for spoken Wikipedia 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 edit
- Sloth moth, aka Bradipodicola hahneli
Done AshLin (talk) 08:57, 14 February 2011 (UTC) - Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of insecta
- Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of lepidopterans (but many are still in the parent category)
- Lasiocampa quercus (Oak eggar) - I've been working on this article today, but I can't find any information on the range of this species beyond Britain and Ireland, other than mentions in France and Spain. It's in the category Moths of Africa, too. Can anyone help? Tony Holkham (Talk) 21:25, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
- Tony - check out the Fauna Europaea entry at https://fauna-eu.org/cdm_dataportal/taxon/962668a0-71b8-47ec-a0eb-d2cd1254db4b and the Lepiforum.de entry at http://www.lepiforum.de/lepiwiki.pl?Lasiocampa_Quercus HKmoths (talk) 07:25, 8 March 2020 (UTC)
- Atalopedes campestris Been working on this but it is my first time at doing this level of original work. I don't think it's a stub-class article anymore but not sure how or where to ask for that to be changed. PopularOutcast talk2me 01:28, 11 September 2018 (UTC)
- PopularOutcast, you just change the banner at the top of the articles's talk page from Stub to Start. Done Tony Holkham (Talk) 08:46, 11 September 2018 (UTC)
- PopularOutcast, you just change the banner at the top of the articles's talk page from Stub to Start.
- Laothoe populi The list of synonyms in the info box is enormous and disrupts the flow of the article. Unless anyone objects, I will make this a three-column section in the body of the article. I've repeated this on the article's talk page. Tony Holkham (Talk) 10:58, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
- I need help on Atalopedes campestris. I've done the best I can. I am not a biologist so I think some part are not clear or I may have interpreted wrong from my research. I would like some feedback and pointers. Also, is there any way to request photos for larvae and eggs? I've found a handful online but there is no indication of who owns them or what kind of license they have. Also, they are not on reputable websites so I am not even 100% sure they are the right species.PopularOutcast talk2me 02:13, 15 September 2018 (UTC)
- Classification updates in Noctuoidea - this stems from my adding a talk note "Classification of Athetis" on the recently created page Athetis hongkongensis. Athetis is placed in the subtribe Athetiina, of Caradrinini, in Noctuinae, by Holloway (2011)[1], and also in Kononenko & Pinratana (2013),[2] which were both based on (developed in parallel with) the molecular review of Noctuidae by [3]. The American list (see Results paras 11 & 12 of [4] and Fauna Europaea https://fauna-eu.org/cdm_dataportal/taxon/bb9d98b2-73dc-4b51-af53-cfc41f467c1f both now follow this arrangement. The Acronictinae is not the correct placement for Athetis. I suspect that there will be a lot of incorrect Wikipedia placements of genera in Noctuidae, as most volunteer Wiki editors/contributors have not yet caught up with the major recent upheavals in Lepidoptera classification. This is going to take a lot of effort, as thousands of species pages will be in need of correcting/updating..... We should follow the Zahirian approach as implemented by the American and European listings. The Fauna Europaea website's database already is updated, so there is no excuse to have Wikipedia out of data or incorrect. I can do a few items as time allows, but I am bogged down with other projects at work most of the time, so am looking to all other participants to give a bit of time to check Noctuioidea (i.e. Erebidae, Noctuidae, Nolidae, Euteliidae) taxa, especially subfamily, tribe, subtribe, genera) and their taxonomic placement. See also [5] ; [6] and [7]. It is worth noting that the Fauna Europaea concept of Acontiinae differs from the Borneo listing quite considerably.HKmoths (talk) 07:15, 8 March 2020 (UTC)
References
- ^ Holloway, 2011. Moths of Borneo 2 http://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-2/family-noctuidae.php
- ^ Kononenko & Pinratana, 2013 Moths of Thailand 3(2) Noctuoidea. An illustrated Catalogue of Erebidae, Nolidae, Euteliidae and Noctuidae (Insecta, Lepidoptera) in Thailand
- ^ Zahiri et al. 2013. http://doi:10[permanent dead link].1111/zsc.12022
- ^ Lafontaine & Schmidt, 2013 http://doi:10[permanent dead link].3897/zookeys.264.4441
- ^ Zahiri, R.; Kitching, I. J.; Lafontaine, J. D.; Mutanen, M.; Kaila, L.; Holloway, J. D. & Wahlberg, N., 2010. A new molecular phylogeny offers hope for a stable family level classification of the Noctuoidea (Lepidoptera). Zoologica Scripta 40: 158-173
- ^ Zahiri, R.; Holloway, J. D.; Kitching, I. J.; Lafontaine, D.; Mutanen, M. & Wahlberg, N., 2012. Molecular phylogenetics of Erebidae (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea). Systematic Entomology 37: 102-124
- ^ Zahiri, R.; Lafontaine, J. D.; Holloway, J. D.; Kitching, I. J.; Schmidt, B. C.; Kaila, L. & Wahlberg, N., 2013. Major lineages of Nolidae (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea) elucidated by molecular phylogenetics. Cladistics 29: 337-359. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/cla.12001.
- I am working on a page about a new species of butterfly. Please, I want the new article that I created in my sandbox to be checked and see if it is up to Wikipedia standards. If there are any problems or anything you would like to add let me know. If the article is okay let me know so that I can paste it as a new article on Wikipedia. The link is https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Space_chinedu/sandbox. I really appreciate if the new article I made is verified.
- [[User talk:Space chinedu#Blocked]] Invasive Spices (talk) 15:58, 4 May 2021 (UTC)
- Mythimna irrorata (& Timora irrorata) [2] is with incorrect synonyms and appears to be an incorrect merger of two species .... confusing because both species were described in 1881 by Moore, but note the different pagination. Full synonymies can be found on Funet (links below). Please can someone address this issue?
- Mythimna irrorata (Moore, 1881: 341) - https://ftp.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/noctuoidea/noctuidae/hadeninae/mythimna/#irrorata
- Timora irrorata (Moore, 1881: 364) - https://ftp.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/noctuoidea/noctuidae/heliothinae/timora/#irrorata HKmoths (talk) 06:41, 13 June 2022 (UTC)
WikiProject cleanup listing edit
A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.
- This project's listing in one big table
- By categories
Templates edit
Stub templates edit
- {{butterfly-stub}}
For example, placing the stub on a page gives the following effect:
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:
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 edit
Please place {{WikiProject Lepidoptera|class=article_quality|importance=article_importance|needs-photo=}} at the top of each article's talk page. This will help to direct editors to WikiProject Lepidoptera for guidance. The arguments to be filled for importance and quality can be found at Wikipedia: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:
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Lepidoptera families listbox template edit
- {{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).
WikiProject Lepidoptera userbox edit
{{User WPLepidoptera}}
- results in:
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Wikiproject Lepidoptera WikiProject Lepidoptera barnstar edit {{subst:Lep-star|message ~~~~}}
Important lists edit
Important articles editPlease see Wikipedia:WikiProject Lepidoptera/Articles. Adopt an article edit
Resources editResources provided by participants of this project edit
Project subpages editFor a complete list of project subpages see here.
Online editGeneral edit
By taxonomy edit
By area editAfrica edit
Europe edit
North America edit
Oceania edit
Print edit
Sister project searches edit
Web sites helping identification edit
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