Lepidoptera
- Dataset
- Lepidoptera phylogeny and systematics: the state of inventorying moth and butterfly diversity
- Rank
- ORDER
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
description
Regional / local checklists come in many forms. The only major zoogeographical region for which complete, modern Lepidoptera checklists are available are North America (Hodges et al., 1983) and Australia (Nielsen et al. 1996); a checklist of Neotropical Lepidoptera is in the course of publication since 1984 (Heppner ed.). Important sub-regional checklists include, e. g., those by Karsholt & Razowski (1996) on Europe (and a more recent electronic list is available on http: // www. faunaeur. org /), Heppner (1992) on Taiwan and Vári et al. (2002) on Southern Africa. As for other insect orders a useful survey of identification works, including primary research articles, was given by Hollis (1980). Works of regional scope that proved invaluable tools for Lepidoptera systematists worldwide include the accounts of Nearctic Lepidoptera immatures in ' Immature Insects' (F. Stehr ed, 1987), the book by Common (1990) on Australian moths, and Holloway et al. 2001 on Malesian Lepidoptera. The somewhat detailed account of Lepidoptera systematics on a global basis presented in the multi-author treatment of the order in the ' Handbuch der Zoologie / Handbook of Zoology ' series (Kristensen ed. 1998) also gives many references to identification literature. Many important internet resources for systematic Lepidopterology can be found at http: // www. lepsoc. org / lepidoptera _ websites _ both. php. Of particular note are also the principal websites that give access to important classical descriptive literature, thereby greatly facilitating revisionary studies to workers who have no easy access to comprehensive libraries: ‘ Biodiversity Heritage Library’ (http: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org /) and ‘ Animal Base’ (http: // www. animalbase. uni-goettingen. de / zooweb / servlet / AnimalBase / search # about); both are still in development