The Global Lepidoptera Names Index
Citation
Beccaloni G., Scoble M., Kitching I., Simonsen T., Robinson G., Pitkin B., Hine A., Lyal C. (2021). LepIndex: The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (version 12.3, Jan 2012). In: Catalogue of Life, [author list in alphabetical order] (ed.) (2021). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 2021-06-10. Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-8858.Description
LepIndex is a digitised and updated version of the unique index card archive to the scientific names of the living and fossil butterflies and moths of the world at the Natural History Museum (London). This card index was produced by the museum’s lepidopterists over many decades and contains about 95 % of all currently valid Lepidoptera names (15,578 genus and 157,474 species names in total), together with synonyms, misspellings and misidentifications.Taxonomic Coverages
Geographic Coverages
Global
Bibliographic Citations
Contacts
G. Beccalonioriginator
Natural History Museum
London
M. Scoble
author
I. Kitching
author
T. Simonsen
author
G. Robinson
author
B. Pitkin
author
A. Hine
author
C. Lyal
author
Adrian Hine, Natural History Museum
administrative point of contact