{"id":1787,"date":"2021-07-19T13:53:53","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T13:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.e-butterfly.org\/wordpress\/?p=1787"},"modified":"2021-11-13T20:54:40","modified_gmt":"2021-11-13T20:54:40","slug":"ebutterfly-taxonomy-updated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.e-butterfly.org\/wordpress\/ebutterfly-taxonomy-updated\/","title":{"rendered":"eButterfly Taxonomy Updated"},"content":{"rendered":"

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White Mountain Fritillary (Boloria chariclea montinus).<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

Months in the making, we\u2019ve just made substantial improvements and corrections to the taxonomic backbone for eButterfly. This will drastically improve the user experience when entering checklists and exploring data.<\/p>\n

The eButterfly taxonomy is a hierarchical approach to creating a butterfly list for checklist data entry and identifications. Users can now select a taxon from any level that best represents their identification for the observation: superfamily Papilionoidea (butterflies), family, subfamily, genus, species, or subspecies (coming soon). If you have a butterfly sighting or image on your checklist and you have no idea what it is, now it can be identified at the superfamily level – butterfly. Or maybe you know it is a swallowtail, but you\u2019re not sure which species. You can select the subfamily Papilioninae (swallowtails). If possible, other users will eventually help you identify it to species, which improves the eButterfly database and perhaps helps you learn too.The eButterfly taxonomy generally follows the Illustrated Lists of American Butterflies (Warren et al. 2017: http:\/\/www.butterfliesofamerica.com<\/a>). The eButterfly taxonomy will be updated at the beginning of each year (January-February) based on new taxonomic discoveries, updates, and perhaps expansions to other regions. Currently, eButterfly can be used from Alaska through Canada south to Panama, and including Hawaii, Bermuda and the Caribbean islands. We now have 3,040 species in 685 genera in the eButterfly taxonomy. Each year the eButterfly taxonomy will be archived (with a detailed change summary) and made available for download. A new web page for this is being created at eButterfly.<\/p>\n

For this update, we corrected many small errors in the eButterfly taxonomy. This included:<\/p>\n