About superfamily, subfamilies, and a simplified classification Online

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Peter Khramov, 10.01.2011 23:46

Several times the question pop up in the "Community", now I received another letter on the subject. Therefore, to create a separate "news", which describe his vision of the issue, and everyone can comment on and express opinions, agree or argue.

So, now online classification of butterflies simplified: only used the main taxa - species, genus, family. It can actually cause discomfort - for example, in a variety of delivery Nymphalidae displayed in alphabetical order, instead of being sorted, indicating subfamilies.Accordingly, it can not be selected and types, for example, the popular superfamily Papilionidea . And so on. In the old version of the site were superfamily and subfamily, and other tribes.

Despite the above disadvantages, the website operates a simplified system.The idea is this: before you enter additional taxa, we need to streamline core.Indeed, the fact that a simplified system, it becomes irregular (the main taxa remain and the introduction of more), but by piling up heaps of taxa for pravlnost parting which no one is responsible, not good not wait.

As soon as entered in the test operation of the system, allowing users to publish to offer new types and kinds, as well as directly (not through the comments) indicate an error in the classification and outdated information in the system (for example,on the tribal affiliation of any kind) - the administrator in this case will only activate these changes, or vice versa, to veto.As a result, even if a simplified system should become more complete, people will not have to wait a long time before the site will be new species, and the relevance and adequacy of the classification used in the site should be up considerably.

If all goes well with chocolate, as described above, then I return additional taxa, and they can work in the same way as with main.

Questions, comments - Wellcome here or in the mail.

Comments

11.01.2011 15:16, Peter Khramov

Originally built on the base O. Karsholt, J. Razowski (eds.), 1996. The Lepidoptera of Europe: a distributional chacklist. Changes: 1. adds a new species, which are on the list was not (not Europe) and 2. Data is deprecated, changed. But both of these points as a percentage is not very high. Alexander Zhakov proposed focus on http://www.faunaeur.org catalog or blue.

In fact, the problem is that the site no restrictions on geography - neither Russian nor Europe will be sufficient. Therefore, the position in the system of some species was taken from funet.fi - there it may not be the most perfect, but it takes into account all sorts of morphological and other exotics.

If anyone has any further suggestions for system / classifications - please voiced.