Butterfly: Sleepy Orange Scientific Name

[nycbirder]

Hello all,

I’m producing a list of taxon_ids for Butterflies reported in the Northeastern United States and came across the following in the scientific_name field:

• Abaeis nicippe (Sleepy Orange)
• Genus Abaeis (only Sleepy Orange for North America)

On the NABA checklist < https://www.naba.org/pubs/enames2_4.html > the scientific name for Sleepy Orange is listed as Eurema Nicippe and when searching on Eurema nicippe in iNat the following is returned:

• Sleepy Orange (Eurema nicippe) | Abaeis nicippe

Is there a reason that iNaturalist has held on to the old scientific name with the new scientific name shown in parentheses?

Thanks in advance.

Ben

[bouteloua]

If there is a number greater than 0 next to Taxon Changes, you can click that and often find the answer to taxonomic questions:

https://www.inaturalist.org/taxon_changes/12402

If you think something needs to be updated, you can click Curation>Flag for Curation and a Curator will take a look. Rather than using the forum for taxon-specific discussions we use that flags system.

As far as why the name appears in parentheses in some searches, the search just looks at / matches on all common names and scientific names associated with the taxon, including synonyms.

[nycbirder]

@bouteloua Thanks for the detailed response. This was very helpful.

I noticed that the link to ‘A Catalogue of the Butterflies of the…’ no longer exists.

Thanks!

[bouteloua]

should be fixed now!

[nycbirder]

@bouteloua Couldn’t ask for more! Link works now. Thanks again.