microleps of North America

[Felix Sperling]

>
>Hello fellow lepidopterists;
>
>Enclosed is a link to a downloadable list of valid species of
>microlepidoptera of North America, which has just been put up on the CFS
>Northern Forestry Centre Biodiversity site. (there's a similar file on the
>french version of the site) As part of my faunistics work on
>microlepidoptera, I've been perusing all the taxonomic papers I could track
>down, for western NA records. As part of the process, I compiled all the
>North American taxonomic changes into this list. It captures a fair number
>of changes since Hodges et al's 1983 checklist, and also since Poole's 1996
>"Nomina Insecta Nearctica". I'm making this publicly available, to save
>others from having to do all the same work while we wait for the next full
>"checklist". If you have use for this sort of thing, here's the link to the
>downloadable EXCEL file:
>
>http://nofc.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/biodiversity/en/faunistics/faunistics_e.html
>
>The fine print:
>Note that this is just the valid names, not all the synonyms, although I try
>to mention the source of very recent synonymies in the notes column. It's
>based on hundreds of papers I've found by searching the Zoological record,
>up to about the end of 2000, with a few more recent ones. For the
>Tortricidae I've also drawn heavily on Brown, J.W. 2000. World Tortricidae
>list. Unpublished; distributed electronically by the author. I already know
>of a couple of very new species I've missed, but it should be 99.9%
>complete. Higher taxonomy follows Kristensen et al (1999): Lepidoptera,
>Volume 1: Evolution, Systematics, and Biogeography. Do what you will with
>this list, and please let me know of any errors and omissions I may have
>made. If it proves useful, I'll try to make regular updates to it.
>
>enjoy!
>Greg
>
>Greg R. Pohl      <GPohl at NRCan.gc.ca>
>Insect I.D. Officer / Museum Curator
>Northern Forestry Centre - Canadian Forest Service
>5320 - 122 St., Edmonton, Alberta, CANADA T6H 3S5
>WEBSITE: http://nofc.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/biodiversity/en/index_e.html


 
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