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I am Stuart J. Longhorn, a consultant postdoctoral evolutionary biologist from the United Kingdom. My specialism in systematics of insects and arachnids, my background involves taxonomy, nomenclature and evolution. I use sjl197 and variants in different webtools. I prefer communication in English or Spanish.

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On everything said below: "caveat emptor"

Links:

For English names to use in enwiki for disambiguations: i.e. "(mayfly)", "(termite)" etc, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Estopedist1/Taxons_and_disambiguation

Nomenclator Zoologicus 1939–1996 http://insecta.bio.spbu.ru/z/nomenclator_zoologicus_PDF.htm

General comments on nomenclature: Dubois, 2011. The International Code of Zoological Nomenclature must be drastically improved before it is too late. 10.11646/bionomina.2.1.1 Nieukerken et al., 2019. REF


  • Code aspects:
    • Art. 12.1.: To be available, every new name published before 1931 Must satisfy the provisions of Article 11 and must be accompanied by a description or a definition of the taxon that it denotes, or by an indication.
    • and: Art. 12.2.5.: In the case of a new genus-group name, the use of one or more available specific names in combination with it, or clearly included under it, or clearly referred to it by bibliographic reference, provided that the specific name or names can be unambiguously assigned to a nominal species-group taxon or taxa.

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  • Recent Family-group names [under Art. 16. Names published after 1999]
    • Art. 16.2. Family-group names: type genus to be cited. In addition to satisfying the provisions of Articles 13-15, a new family-group name published after 1999 must be accompanied by citation of the name of the type genus (i.e. the name from which the family-group name is formed).
  • Modern Genus-group names [under Article 13. Names published after 1930. Also links back from Art. 16. Names published after 1999]
    • Art. 13.3. Genus-group names. To be available, every new genus-group name published after 1930 (except those proposed for collective groups or ichnotaxa) must, in addition to satisfying the provisions of Article 13.1, be accompanied by the fixation of a type species in the original publication [Art. 68] or be expressly proposed as a new replacement name (nomen novum) [Art. 67.8].
  • Recent Species-group names [under Art. 16. Names published after 1999]
    • Art. 16.4. Species-group names: fixation of name-bearing types to be explicit fixation of name-bearing types to be explicit. Every new specific and subspecific name published after 1999, except a new replacement name (a nomen novum), for which the name-bearing type of the nominal taxon it denotes is fixed automatically [Art. 72.7], must be accompanied in the original publication. / Else 16.4.1. by the explicit fixation of a holotype, or syntypes, for the nominal taxon [Arts. 72.2, 72.3, 73.1.1, 73.2 and Recs. 73A and 73C], and, / 16.4.2. where the holotype or syntypes are extant specimens, by a statement of intent that they will be (or are) deposited in a collection and a statement indicating the name and location of that collection (see Recommendation 16C).

Gender agreement in formation of genera (i don't think specifies recent or older). Per 30.1. Gender of names formed from Latin or Greek words. Gender based on Latin or Greek dictionaries. No clarity if dictionaries (especially those in both languages) both contain the word with different genders, e.g. schema. Exception 30.1.4.1. Author can state "not formed from, or is not treated as, a Latin or Greek word" then interpreted as arbitrary, then gender either 30.2.2. as expressly stated by authors, 30.2.3. inferred from epithet suffixes, 30.2.4. masculine unless the genus suffix can be interpreted as feminine or neuter. What could go wrong? E.g. "Striatovertex" a wasp genus created in 2011 where authors state as feminine - in their Etymology (p62) "and is feminine." However, also "Striatovertex means striated vertex (from latin Stria and Vertex)," so expressly stating both components are from latin, and no statement it is not to be treated as latin (or greek).

Else see below for example case with multiple original spelling of genus, Art. 32.5.1 (but also possibly Art. 24.2. - which relates to synonyms and homonyms) https://www.inaturalist.org/flags/801011 Else for prevailing usage Art 23.9.1 with 23.9.1.1. as the senior name has not been used as valid since 1899, AND 23.9.1.2 25 publications by at least 10 authors over the past 50 years (encompassing a span of at least 10 years).

Note, grammatical gender latin: https://dcc.dickinson.edu/grammar/latin/rules-gender#:~:text=a.,others%20are%20variable%20or%20uncertain.

TAXON RESOURCES FOR ARTHOPODS:

Else see iNaturalist old overview: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/taxonomic-resources-for-insects-wiki/11584 For see "Species file" projects and derivatives": https://speciesfilegroup.org//data

Arachnids:

For Parasitiformes (Badly updated databases!) General overview Beaulieu et al. 2011 ITIS listing. Else see e.g. a select few on BeeMiteID

For Acariformes: (Lack of any useful databases!)
Scheme text SCHEME IMAGE See e.g. a select few on BeeMiteID

  • Trombidiformes, Prostigmata
    • Trombiculidae and Leeuwenhoekiidae: e.g. Nielsen, Robbins & Rueda, 2021 PDF
    • Parasitengona (excluding Trombiculidae and Walchiidae): e.g. Mąkol & Wohltmann, 2012. PDF See also Mąkol & Wohltmann, 2012 'corrections' DOI, or older Mąkol, 2000 catalog, plus Mąkol, 2007 overview of genera.
    • Labidostommatina (1 family), Eupodina (9 families), Superfamily Tydeoidea etc: for Bdellidae see Hernandes et al. 2016, else e.g Beron 2022 ACARORUM CATALOGUS X
    • Superfamily Raphignathoidea etc e.g Beron 2020 ACARORUM CATALOGUS VII (See ITIS (2024) as updated plus additions)
  • Sarcoptiformes: Astigmatina (Acaridida)
    • Schizoglyphoidea, etc: e.g Beron 2021 ACARORUM CATALOGUS IX
    • Oribatida: See Schatz, Behan-Pelletier, OConnor & Norton 2011. Suborder Oribatida van der Hammen, 1968. Pp 141–148 In Zhang (ed.) 2011. for the wider listing of main lineages PDF For details see after Subías, 2006 (to 2011) etc Archive-PDF Especially updates in Subías, 2022 "Acaros oribátidos del mundo" PDF See also unpublished "Subías, 2024 LISTADO SISTEMÁTICO, SINONÍMICO, etc" Online access

Insects:

For all Nearctic insects, the old listings in Poole, 1996 can have value https://bugguide.net/node/view/1212548

Volume 1 - Coleoptera, Strepsiptera

Volume 2 - Hymenoptera, Mecoptera, Megaloptera, Neuroptera, Raphidioptera, Trichoptera

Volume 3 - Diptera, Lepidoptera, Siphonaptera

Volume 4 - The remaining orders

  • COLEOPTERA:

General: Schenkling (Ed) et al. "Coleopterorum catalogus" Parts 1 to Pars75 1910 =1922 BHL. Also see later Schenkling, Junk etc.. "Coleopterorum catalogus" continued to Pars156 before volumes. Douglas, 1950 Coleopterorum catalogus supplementa https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000543470

Else general Neotropical by country or lineage http://www.coleoptera-neotropical.org/paginaprincipalhome.html

Else see Blackwelder 1944-1948 Checklist of the coleopterous insects of Mexico, Central America, the West Indies, and South America, e.g. Blackwelder, 1946, part4

  • Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga

Löbl & Löbl, 2017. Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Volume 1. Archostemata – Myxophaga – Adephaga. Revised and Updated Edition. Brill, Leiden; Boston. 1480 pp. [Paywall, but via Brill] inc.

    • Adephaga: For North America except Mexico, see Bousquet, 2012 "Catalogue of Geadephaga" Zookeys
      • Carabidae: etc. various online but see for Australian, see Lawrence, Moore, etc. 1987. Coleoptera Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga in Zoological Catalogue of Australia Vol.4 Walton et al. Exec ed. Paywall pdf via Brill Else see Paywalled Lorenz, 2025. Carabcat database. Some export as "Lorenz, W. (2025). Carabcat database (version 03 (08/2021)). COL
      • Dytiscidae: See Nilsson, 2015 World Catalog also "All diving beetle specific and subspecific names explained" LINK ResearcGate
  • Polyphaga
    • Staphyliniformia/Staphylinoidea
      • Staphylinidae: etc See Catalog of Life, Staphbase [last export 2022 derived from PEET-Austral Staphylinidae, but also e.g. Herman/Smetana 2001-2009, Catalog of the Staphylinidae (Insecta: Coleoptera). 1758, Vol.1-7, Bulletin of the AMNH (see also on BHL)


    • Cucujiformia:
    • Cleroidea:

        • Else Papers [World]: Alonso-Zarazaga & Lyal 1999. A world catalogue of families and genera of Curculionoidea [etc!] (NOT Scolytidae and Platypodidae). LINK or MySpecies Also Alonso-Zarazaga & Lyal 2002. Addenda and corrigenda to ‘A World Catalogue' Part.1 (Zootaxa 63: 1–37) AND Lyal & Alonso-Zarazaga 2006. Addenda and corrigenda to ‘A World Catalogue Part.2. (Zootaxa 1202: 21–31). Else later: Alonso-Zarazaga & Lyal 2009. A catalogue of family and genus group names in Scolytinae and Platypodinae [etc]. (Zootaxa 2258: 1–134)
        • Else Papers (LINKS) [Palaearctic]: Löbl & Smetana (eds.) 2011. Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera: Vol. 7 Curculionoidea I. Apollo books. 373 pp. eBook ISBN 978-87-88757-93-4. Löbl & Smetana (eds.) 2013. Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera Vol. 8 Curculionoidea II. Brill, Leiden. 700 pp. eBook ISBN 978-90-04252-06-6. Also Alonso-Zarazaga et al. 2016. Addenda and Corrigenda to the Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, volumes 7 and 8 (Curculionoidea). Graellsia Via ResearchGate. Broader, CCPCC "Cooperative Catalogue of Palaeartic Coleoptera Curculionoidea", Alonso-Zarazaga et al. 2017: CCPCC1 2017 and Alonso-Zarazaga et al. 2023: CCPCC2 2023

    • Lymexyloidea:
  • STREPSIPTERA:

World Strepsiptera Database Kathirithamby, J. (2025). World Strepsiptera Database. Accessed at https://strepsiptera.aphia.org on 2025-12-19. doi:10.14284/484 Metadata via worms - why?! CoL

  • NEUROPTERA ETC:

LDL Neuropterida (to add!)

  • TRICHOPTERA:

See Morse et al. Trichoptera World Checklist. Note, most older links fail NOT "entweb.sites.clemson.edu" See e.g. published note Morse, J.C. 2009 "The Trichoptera World Checklist" PDF Else extension as "Nearctic Checklist". Else "Trichoptera Literature Database" on Zotero. Holzenthal & Calor "Catalog of the Neotropical Trichoptera (Caddisflies)" PDF

  • LEPIDOPTERA:

Some overview of key catalogs/works prior to 2018 can be found in table of van Nieukerken et al. 2018, with focus on Gender Agreement, See HERE Some view of subdivision of others prior to GLI is given on webpage by Hobern June 2022

General (Leps):
Lepindex OUTDATED CONTENT LINK Sometime in 2025, they absurdly changed internal part of URLs by removing a forward slash, i.e. from "detail/?taxonno=" to "detail?taxonno=" making many broken links externally, e.g. failing as example nilgirica versus example nilgirica functioning as of late 2025.

Savela "funet" GOOD FOR OLD LITERATURE Funet LINK

Various: Nye, 1975; Fletcher & Nye, 1982 etc. https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ian_William_Beresford_Nye

    • Bombycoidea: see Kitching et al. (2018) [etc]
    • Noctuoidea:
      • Notodontidae: (or Oenosandridae). See Schintlmeister, A. (2013). World Catalogue of Insects, Volume 11: Notodontidae & Oenosandridae (Lepidoptera). Brill. [Paywalled full pdf]
    • Pyraloidea: i.e. Crambidae – Pyralidae.GloBIZ. Checklist USA [north of Mexico] Scholtens & Solis 2015. LINK Also South east Asian Pyraloidea or Thyridoidea "Pyralids of Borneo" LINK. For Phycitinae see Lerault, 2021 Spécies géneral des Phycitinae [closed access] and Lerault, 2022 Addendum et corrigendum [see ResearcGate].
    • Yponomeutoidea inc. Ypsolophinae:Sohn
    • Papilionoidea: [Hesperioidea] (How do 20,000 Papilionoidea cause so many nomenclatural problems when they're only about 1.2% of described arthropods!). See below for regional lists. Select general works Bridges, 1988 Rhopalocera, Bridges, 1994 (etc) "Hesperioidea" or "Riodinidae & Lycaenidae". Else Seitz 1912-1934 [and sub-authors, volumes both in English and German]"The Macrolepidoptera of the world" // Freyer 1890s "Neuere Beiträge zur Schmetterlingskunde" MANY non-BHL Freyer // Tremewan's listing of Freyers dates etc: LINK

AMERICAN

AFRICAN

EURASIAN

ASIAN

  • SIPHONAPTERA:

Catalog of Life "Robert E. Lewis World Species Flea (Siphonaptera) List". (Version 3.0 / 2025-07-16)

  • DIPTERA:

See also "Systema Dipterorum Nomenclatural Notes" https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:WrenFalcon/SysDipNomNot

North American Diptera:
Manual of Nearctic Diptera Vol 1
Manual of Nearctic Diptera Vol 2
Manual of Nearctic Diptera Vol 3

Central American Diptera (select pages only via google books):
Manual of Central American Diptera Vol 1
Manual of Central American Diptera Vol 2
A Manual of Central American Diptera: Buck et al. 2009 "Key to Diptera families (adults)" researchgate

Manual of Afrotropical Diptera Several sections

Evenhuis, 2010. Nomenclatural Studies Toward a World List of Diptera Genus-Group Names. Part I. Zootaxa 2373 (PDF auto-download)

  • [Tipulomorpha\Tipuloidea]: Pediciidae, Limoniidae, Cylindrotomidae, Tipulidae: CCW
  • Brachycera: (to do, including)
      • Asilidae: Robber-flies of the World (Chris Cohen) Else see: Papavero, 2008 Catalogue of Neotropical Diptera. Asilidae PDF
      • Bombyliidae: bombcat // Evenhuis & Greathead, 2015. World catalog of bee flies (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Revised 2015. / plus older Evenhuis & Greathead, 1999.
      • Oestridae: Papavero & Guimarães, 2009. Catalogue of Neotropical Diptera. Cuterebridae. Neotropical Diptera. 11: 1–17. PDF
      • Tachinidae: Worldchecklist, Manual
  • HYMENOPTERA:

For all see WaspWeb but very African biased, South African led initiative. various North America: Krombein / Burks, 1960-1970s https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Barnard_DeWitt_Burks For north America see after Krombein, 1979 Catalog of hymenoptera in America north of Mexico

    • Chrysidoidea: Chrysididae: Chrysididae Species File Export Checklistbank From "SF Chrysididae" [presumably based on Kimsey & Bohart 1990. The chrysidid wasps of the World. Oxford University Press, 664 Pages. ISBN 0-19-854010-8,

Others i.e. The HymIS database: Pompilidae of the world i.e. The HymIS database: Bees and wasps of America Central http://www.hymis.net/projects

PARANEOPTERA:

  • HEMIPTERA:
    • Auchenorrhyncha:
      • Cicadomorpha and Fulgoromorpha:, see Hoppers Species File(After Aug. 2023). But also for Fulgoromorpha see FLOW. See also older, "General catalogue of the homoptera" (note: especially "Fasc.1" from 1965a, b out of order) BHL LINKS else direct on archive e.g. Metcalf, 1954 PDF
      • Cimicomorpha
        • inc. Tingidae [Defunct "Lace Bugs Database"]
        • inc. Reduviidae [via ITIS]. But see Masonick et al. 2025. "A revised classification of the assassin bugs " PDF
  • THYSANOPTERA:

POLYNEOPTERA:

BASAL

  • EPHEMEROPTERA:

galeria

Crustaea:

See WoRMS database and sources.

  • e.g. Ng, Guinot, & Davie, 2008. Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 17: 1–286. Archive 2011
  • e.g. Crandall & De Grave, 2017. An updated classification of the freshwater crayfishes (Decapoda: Astacidea) of the world, (etc). Paywalled pdf

OTHER

Useful botanical latin: https://www.mobot.org/mobot/latindict/keyDetail.aspx?keyWord=ceras

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