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UK Lepidoptera Checklist Synonyms
This page provides an alphabetical index to the scientific species and subspecies names and synonyms in the Checklist of the Lepidoptera of the British Isles, D J L Agassiz, S D Beavan and R J Heckford, 2013 and subsequent amendments, obtained from a spreadsheet version downloaded from the Natural History Museum Data Portal. Natural History Museum (2022). Data Portal Query on "Agassiz Lepidoptera 20220628a.xslx" created at 2022-07-01 07:24:22. 187770 PID https://doi.org/10.5519/qd.zg8ojon9. Subject of "Checklist of the Lepidoptera of the British Isles - Data" (dataset) PID https://doi.org/10.5519/0093915. This is under the CC-BY-SA-4.0 License, which also applies to this web page. Disclaimer: the Museum cannot warrant the quality or accuracy of the data.
Some additional synonyms have been added from older sources, and some additional name useage taken from the checklist Notes section. This is intended to assist recognition of species from lists published in historical books and articles, and to draw attention to the number of species possibly corresponding to past use of some names. Most of these additions were obtained from "The Entomologist" Synonymic List of British Lepidoptera, R. South, 1884. This list and a number of other historical items on British lepidoptera are available for view and download on the Biodiversity Heritage Library website. To avoid confusion with checklist entries such additions have an underscore "_" appended to the name, and some more doubtful old names have "_?" appended. Disclaimer: there is no guarantee of the accuracy of the assignment to species of any of these additions, and not all of the total possible additions have been found, assigned to a current species name and added to this index. Only names used for species and subspecies have been included here; some of these have also been used for forms/varieties of the same species, but other named varieties are excluded. The different genus names used for some species have not been listed.
Some identification problems when using old species lists:
- multiple use of a name by different authors for different species
- two or more species formerly grouped as a single species
- two or more forms/subspecies of a species formerly treated as different species
- uncertainty over the species corresponding to some old names
- more than one of the above problems can apply to the same species!
Each row of the index contains the ABH number, the Bradley list number (if any) in brackets, the ABH list taxon followed in alphabetical order by the ABH list synonyms and subspecies (if any) and the synonyms from other sources. Ss after a name indicates a subspecies from the checklist. A name used for one species as both a subspecies and as a synonym is only listed once here, and a nominate subspecies name is not listed as a subspecies. The scientific names are followed by the common name (in brackets if not taken from the ABH checklist), and for most species the typical UK larval food [in square brackets] derived from various sources. Disclaimer: the larval food information may not be complete or entirely correct. It is there to assist determining the species in an old report if the name used has multiple index entries, when the report mentions the foodplant.
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Page last revised December 2022
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