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Two-spotted Eugnosta - Hodges#3763 (Eugnosta bimaculana)
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Copyright © 2012
Donald R Riley
Carolella bimaculana -
Eugnosta bimaculana
Katy, Harris County, Texas, USA
October 25, 2012
This species is called Eugnosta bimaculana at MPG, no mention of that here. If this was Hodges #3783 in the 1983 checklist, why are you using #3763. Found at light.
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Contributed by
Donald R Riley
on 28 October, 2012 - 12:46pm
Two-spotted Carolella - Hodges #3763
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Robert Lord Zimlich
, 28 October, 2012 - 1:44pm
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Two-spotted Carolella
Eugnosta bimaculana
was originally assigned #3783 in the 1983 Hodges Checklist. At that time, most of the species in Cochylini (then considered to be Cochylidae) were not assigned to genera. Today, for the most part, they are placed in a variety of genera which, if the old numbering system is retained, would result in a list of confusing appearance.
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Robert Lord Zimlich
, 28 October, 2012 - 1:07pm
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Thanks for the info, this now
Thanks for the info, this now kind of makes sense. However as new species are described or exotic species discovered now in the US and given a new Hodges #, this would still result in a confusing appearance within a genus. And who assigns these new Hodges numbers? What a mess this could turn out to be in another 50 years. Just my think-so.
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Donald R Riley
, 29 October, 2012 - 2:07am
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Moth Taxonomy
Ronald Hodges created the list 30 years ago, for every known moth species north of Mexico. What sluff he did allow in his numbering system, has been used up, hence the growing abundance of decimal numbers. Dr. Sangmi Lee's
paper
was one of the ones approved at this year's conference, redefines one
Sinoe
species (1834) and defines two new species (1834.1 & 1834.2). It wouldn't be long before Hodges numbers would look like the Dewey Decimal system.
Bob Patterson has created a new numbering system, the "MPG Numbers". This system assigns a 2-digit number to each superfamily and a 4-digit number to each species in the superfamily. At least for some time to come, the Hodges number can be added. This should last awhile, considering the
present number of species in each superfamily
.
This is an ongoing project and all numbers have not yet been assigned. This moth, however, does have an
MPG/Hodges Number: 116350-3763
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Robert
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Robert Lord Zimlich
, 29 October, 2012 - 3:08am
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Wow, I did not realize all th
Wow, I did not realize all this was going on, thanks again.
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Donald R Riley
, 29 October, 2012 - 9:36am
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