Nymphalidae, the most species rich butterfly family, is in need of revision. This website aims to be a community driven source of an authoritative classification of Nymphalidae, based on active discussion of the latest results in systematics. This scratchpad will be a space to publish data online and facilitate cooperation between lepidopterists working on Nymphalidae.

Diversity of web sites: hindrance or richness?

Edited by nwahlberg on Wed, 02/27/2008 - 10:47

As we have been setting up this scratchpad, I have had to think hard about the usefulness of such a site. We now have an abundance of web sites with essentially the same information, ie repetition galore. My own thinking is starting to go along these lines: we have the Tree of Life pages (http://tolweb.org) as an excellent place to store information about phylogenetic relationships of taxa (including Nymphalidae). We have the newly inaugurated Encyclopedia of Life (http://www.eol.org) as a potential place for species pages.

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