Taxonomy changes
Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2020 9:45 pm
The third update to 'Checklist of the Lepidoptera of the British Isles' has now been published in the Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation. Those changes have now been reflected on UKB and are:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf ... syen.12236
... which has been adopted in 'An updated checklist of the European Butterflies':
https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/287 ... 3OK3zNBVu8
Cheers,
- Pete
- The High Brown Fritillary has changed genus and is now Fabriciana adippe (formerly Argynnis adippe).
- The Niobe Fritillary has changed genus and is now Fabriciana niobe (formerly Argynnis niobe).
- The Dark Green Fritillary has changed genus and is now Speyeria aglaja (formerly Argynnis aglaja).
- The Great Spangled Fritillary has changed genus and is now Speyeria cybele (formerly Argynnis cybele). This change has been inferred, and is NOT explicitly defined in the update.
- Also - we have a new adventive - a Lycaenid, Deudorix antalus - that goes by the vernacular name of 'Brown Playboy'.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf ... syen.12236
... which has been adopted in 'An updated checklist of the European Butterflies':
https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/287 ... 3OK3zNBVu8
Cheers,
- Pete