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I apparently have too much free time so I compiled a list of Macaronese lepidoptera with distribution information for most of the islands. The file is available for download at http://www.jkt.1g.fi/Xtra/LepMacaronesia_(vrs2).xlsx.

The main sources were:
- Borges, P.A.V., Costa, A., Cunha, R., Gabriel, R., Gonçalves, V., Martins, A.F., Melo, I., Parente, M., Raposeiro, P., Rodrigues, P., Santos, R.S., Silva, L., Vieira, P. & Vieira, V. (Eds.) (2010). A list of the terrestrial and marine biota from the Azores. Princípia, Cascais, 432 pp.
- Arechavaleta, M., S. Rodríguez, N. Zurita & A. García (coord.) 2010. Lista de especies silvestres de Canarias. Hongos, plantas y animales terrestres. 2009. Gobierno de Canarias. 579 pp.
- Borges, P.A.V., Abreu, C., Aguiar, A.M.F., Carvalho, P., Jardim, R., Melo, I., Oliveira, P., Sérgio, C., Serrano, A.R.M. & Vieira, P. (eds.) (2008). A list of the terrestrial fungi, flora and fauna of Madeira and Selvagens archipelagos. Direcção Regional do Ambiente da Madeira and Universidade dos Açores, Funchal and Angra do Heroísmo, 440 pp.
- Arechvaleta, M., N. Zurita, M.C. Marrero & J.L. Martín (eds.). 2005. Lista preliminar de especies silvestres de Cabo Verde (hongos, plantas y animales terrestres). 2005. Consejería de Medio Ambiente y Ordenación Territorial, Gobierno de Canarias. 155 pp.
- Luis F. Mendes & A. Bivar de Sousa (2010). New data on Hesperioidea and Papilionoidea (Lepidoptera) from the Cape Verde Islands, with a review of previous records. Zoologia Caboverdiana 1 (1): 45-58, Sociedade Caboverdiana de Zoologia. 58 pp.
Some information from the earlier versions of those lists is also used.

The systematic grouping and names are (mostly) according to FaunaEur and the order according to http://www.lepiforum.de to the extent possible. I'd be grateful if anyone could help me with the African species found in Cabo Verde. Most of the problems are indicated with orange or red color in columns B-F.

Comments are welcome!

Good work, JKT!!

Euchrysops osiris seems pretty uncontroversial - the genus itself is uncontroversial and all lists seem to include osiris in it. See, for example:

http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/lif ... index.html

The grass yellows (Eurema) are usually put in tribe Euremini. This is what is given as the 'Eurema group' here:

http://tolweb.org/Coliadinae/12217/2006.11.16

The evening browns (Melanitis) are indeed in the tribe Melanitini, as you have said (though it's in orange, so I'm commenting).

Biblini also looks good and uncontroversial to me.

Colotis amata is authored by Fabricius, 1775 (http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/lif ... html#amata). I think it is correctly placed in the Colotini, which are correctly placed in the Pierinae (though they must surely hang somewhere on the borders of Pierinae and Coliadinae, as some Colotis look like orange tips and others are extraordinarily like clouded yellows (including C. amata).

Coeliades (the policement) are correctly placed in the Coeliadinae. I can't find a reference to tribes within this subfamily, though I'm at school at the moment, using the web, and there may be something in my books at home.

Guy

About Euchrysopes, Melatinini, Biblini and Coeliadinae: the question is about their position in the taxonomic order. And now the same problem is with Euremini. Thanks for the author of C. amata!

A new version with some corrections and additions: http://www.jkt.1g.fi/Xtra/LepMacaronesia_(vrs3).xlsx. This one also has list of changes from the original list. However, changes in taxonomy above Genus name are not listed and I may have missed some as I compiled those after the fact.