New Moth Images Web Resource

[John.Snyder at furman.edu]

I am developing a web site that tells you where to find images (photos or
drawings) of North American moth species, both adult and caterpillar forms.
It is far from finished, but perhaps worth making public.

(a)  What I call it:  Imagelist

(b)  Where it is:  http://www.furman.edu/~snyder/imagelist/

(c)  What it's good for:  While all species are shown in the journal
articles where they are first described, not all of us have access to the
major research libraries where these are archived.  We often have to rely
on the relatively few books that have been published and (recently) on
images posted on the Web.  This resource attempts to tell you which book(s)
and web site(s) have at least one image of any particular species.  You
will spend much less time thumbing through your personal or public library
if you know where to go.

(c)  What the site looks like:  really boring, just a bunch of tables
saying "yes" or "no" for each species and each book or web site.  But it's
a huge amount of information.

(d)  Which resources have been examined and described for each species:

     A Field Guide to the Moths of Eastern North America, by Covell
     Le Guides Papillons du Quebéc, by Handfield
     Macromoths of Northwest Forests and Woodlands, by Miller and Hammond
     The Moth Book, by Holland (using modern nomenclature, supplied in the
publication by Joel M. Johnson)
     Butterflies and Moths of Missouri, by Heitzman and Heitzman
     Moths of America North of Mexico, including Greenland ("MONA"),
continuing series of fascicles
     Caterpillars of Pacific Northwest Forests and Woodlands, by Miller
     Caterpillars of Eastern Forests, by Wagner, et al.
     Web Images of North American Moth Species, by Snyder (web site)

(e)  What it covers, so far:  only two families, Noctuidae and Sphingidae.
But more will be added continuously over the coming weeks.

(f)  Disclaimers:  I relied on the authors for getting the identifications
right.  The nomenclature is mostly from the 1983 Checklist of Hodges, et
al., exept for those that have been changed in more recent MONA fascicles.
If I didn't find a species in one of these resources, I don't mention it at
all.

Try it, see if it is valuable for you, give me feedback.

John Snyder
Dept. of Biology
Furman University
john.snyder at furman.edu


 
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