Kishen, taxonomy tends to change down the line: eg., it is nearly impossible to
separate information gathered for Pantoporia hordonia and P. sandaka; Polyura
athamas and P. agraria, Psilogramma menephron and P. increta, etc, etc. It is
always better to have specimens to examine. That way, no matter which way
taxonomy progresses, the data gathered is never lost. None of our national
collections of Lepidoptera is complete, or, indeed, near complete. Lots of work
needs to be done and to ensure scientific reliability, if it is specimen based,
it will be irrefutable. Photos are useful up to a point, but not in a country
where the Lepidoptera are as imperfectly known as ours...
On Sun, 25 Jul 2010 08:40:27 +0530 wrote
>
I think this project is restricted to Europe and UK.
It would be good if we can create an online database, where anyone can log in
and report their sightings. ( Of course these sightings should be backed up by
photos and also some expert to look into the data)
Probably once there is an establishment of genuinity of sightings by a
particular person, then the expert can relax submitting the photos for all the
species ( I mean except for the difficult to ID or rare ones).
On the long run it will help in better understading the distribution and
diversity of our regions.
I talked to couple of people but it did not work out.
Probably I will have this once I have my own website, at least for migratory
ones to start with.
Kishen
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