New guide pages

Pinodytes cryptophagoides (Mannerheim)

Need new page for this species, same info as P. rothi but cryptophagoides.
Thank you.

… Gary Griswold, 19 November, 2019 - 1:37pm

You'll want to post...

...to the Requests for Additional Guide Pages forum. Be sure to include a link to the images, assuming you've posted them to the Guide.

… Ken Wolgemuth, 19 November, 2019 - 2:21pm

There are many changes taking place

in moth taxonomy just now and there is a large backlog of work to do to catch up to those changes. We're guessing your images will be done when the editors get to that particular family or genus. It is exciting to see all the new knowledge and relationships being discovered, but it means a lot of work for our volunteer editors. Sorry

… john and jane balaban, 18 February, 2019 - 2:50pm

Requests for Additional Guide Pages

Moth's are probably the worst category in terms of a backlog. I suggest making thumbnail links to all your images of moths for which you are sure of the ID, but which still need species pages, to a single post to the general "Requests for Additional Guide Pages" forum. Putting [thumb:1596744], for example, in your post results in this:

The collated thumbnails will make it convenient for contributing editors to navigate to them to make pages. They will eventually be processed, but I see even that forum has a significant backlog. For more timely action, I suggest becoming a contributing editor yourself. Email John VanDyk to request such a change. Explain that the reason you wish to be an editor is to create pages for your many new-species contributions. Reference the aforementioned post to Requests to show what you mean (there are dozens). As a registered "expert" already, you appear qualified. If you'd like to make pages for other frustrated contributors like yourself, that's all the better reason.

… Edward L. Ruden, 18 February, 2019 - 2:34pm

Thanks

I have already posted thumbs for all my requests on that forum. I was just asking because they are all remaining in "limbo" but other pages are being placed relatively quickly.

… Ray Simpson, 21 February, 2019 - 2:15pm

I see your thumbnails now

Sorry, I didn't dig back far enough in Requests the first time to see your thumbnails. I can assure you from looking at your images that they are a much appreciated contribution. Being able to make new taxon pages for images is one of the highest priorities on BG. Some submissions and taxa take longer than others to place, though, due to a number of factors. Before an editor experienced with moths makes a page, he'll often want to follow up on your identification to make sure there are not other possibilities. Exceptions will be made if the contributor himself is a specialist in the taxon (as implied by credentials in profile, say) or there is an authoritative "Det." attribution. And, as stated, there's a lot of work to do in moths relative to the number of editors working that area. It'll get done, though.

… Edward L. Ruden, 21 February, 2019 - 8:52pm

If you don't get a reply...

...you may want to consider moving this thread to the Moth Forum. The editors who work with leps may be more likely to find it there. Just click on "edit," select the new forum from the drop-down menu, and save the change.

… Ken Wolgemuth, 18 February, 2019 - 1:55pm