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In this tutorial you are going to explore some of the features available in ChecklistBank by creating a new Moth dataset. You will use four Lepidoptera (moth and butterfly) datasets available in ChecklistBank. The three-letter abbreviations GLI, ALU, PHR and GAR will be used through the rest of this tutorial to refer to the following datasets:
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GLI: Global Lepidoptera Index – the primary dataset used in the Catalogue of Life Checklist for most groups of moths and butterflies
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ALU: Catalogue of the Alucitoidea of the World – the dataset used in the Catalogue of Life Checklist for the many-plume moths (superfamily Alucitoidea)
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PHR (id: PLZ31420) A world catalogue of Phragmataecia (Lepidoptera: Cossidae), with a new species from Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan – a dataset summarising the names currently accepted for a moth genus, extracted by Plazi from a paper in the journal Zootaxa
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GAR (id: PLZ41041): A review of the genus Gargela Walker in China, with descriptions of ten new species (Lepidoptera: Crambidae, Crambinae) – a dataset summarising the names of Chinese species a moth genus, extracted by Plazi from a paper in the journal Zootaxa
You will use ChecklistBank tools to structure a new moth dataset based on GLI and then modify it in the following ways:
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Exclude the butterfly superfamily Papilionoidea, to create a “moth”-only dataset.
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Replace the Alucitoidea section in GLI with the version in ALU .
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Replace the Phragmataecia section in GLI (in the family Cossidae) with the version in PHR.
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Merge new species from GAR with those already in the Gargela section in GLI.
The tutorial will finally show how the resulting dataset can be exported.