The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex) is now on-line.

[Roger C. KENDRICK]

Dear George et al at The NHM,

GAME ON!!

Will try out with some of the queries on the Hong Kong Pyralidae and Thyrididae
(e.g. Glanycus tricolor / insolitus)!

Many thanks,

Roger Kendrick

 --- George Beccaloni <gwb at nhm.ac.uk> wrote: > Dear Lepidopterists,
> 
> We are pleased to announce the launch of a new on-line database called the 
> Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex) (see 
> http://www.nhm.ac.uk/entomology/lepindex/).
> 
> LepIndex is essentially a computerised and updated version of the Natural 
> History Museum's (UK) unique card index archive to the scientific names of 
> the living and fossil Lepidoptera of the world. This archive was produced 
> by NHM taxonomists over many decades and it contains 290,891 cards, 
> representing ~95% of all published Lepidoptera names, plus misspellings and 
> misidentifications. LepIndex has electronic images of all these cards, and 
> anyone with access to the Internet will now be able to view them and obtain 
> information such as who named a butterfly or moth species and where the 
> original description was published.
> 
> Please note that LepIndex currently contains images of the cards (27,577 in 
> total) for the following moth superfamilies:- Alucitoidea, Hyblaeoidea, 
> Pterophoroidea, Pyraloidea, Simaethistoidea, Thyridoidea and 
> Whalleyanoidea. All card images will be on-line by October this year and 
> major improvements to the data will also have been made by then.
> 
> If you want to test LepIndex but don't know the names of any moths in the 
> above superfamilies, then try searching for the genus name "Dysodia".
> 
> Any comments on LepIndex will be gratefully received:- please send them to 
> George Beccaloni at g.beccaloni at nhm.ac.uk.
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> George Beccaloni, Malcolm Scoble, Gaden Robinson, Brian Pitkin
> 
>
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> George Beccaloni PhD
> Research Entomologist
> Entomology Dept.
> The Natural History Museum (formerly British Museum (Natural History))
> Cromwell Rd
> South Kensington
> London SW7 5BD
> 
> Tel. 020 7942 5361 Fax. 020 7942 5229
>
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Roger C. KENDRICK  Ph.D.
Senior Conservation Officer, Fauna Conservation, 
Kadoorie Farm & Botanic Garden, Hong Kong
http://www.kfbg.org/
http://asia.geocities.com/hkmoths/
moths at kfbg.org, hkmoths at yahoo.co.uk

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