Chrysorthenches Dugdale, 1996

[SiobhanLeachman]

I've been working on the Lepidoptera genus Chrysorthenches updating the Wikipedia species articles for some New Zealand moths found within it. In doing so I've noticed that the CoL appears not to list this genus and also that some species now placed within this genus are either not listed in the Catalogue of Life, or are listed under the genus Orthenches.
Species that are covered include:
*Chrysorthenches argentea Dugdale, 1996
*Chrysorthenches callibrya (Turner, 1923)
*Chrysorthenches drosochalca (Meyrick, 1905)
*Chrysorthenches glypharcha (Meyrick, 1919)
*Chrysorthenches halocarpi Dugdale, 1996
*Chrysorthenches lagarostrobi Dugdale, 1996
*Chrysorthenches microstrobi Dugdale, 1996
*Chrysorthenches muraseae Sohn & Kobayashi, 2020
*Chrysorthenches phyllocladi Dugdale, 1996
*Chrysorthenches polita (Philpott, 1918)
*Chrysorthenches porphyritis (Meyrick, 1885)
*Chrysorthenches smaragdina Sohn, 2020
*Chrysorthenches virgata (Philpott, 1920)
...

Link to effected CoL webpages:
https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/35FX8 Diathryptica callibrya Turner, 1923
https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/6T9L5 Orthenches drosochalca Meyrick, 1905
https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/74XL5 Orthenches glypharcha Meyrick, 1919
https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/759L6 Orthenches polita Philpott, 1918
https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/6T9KV Orthenches porphyritis Meyrick, 1886 (note the year of first publication of this species also appears to be incorrect. I believe it should be 1885.)
https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/5CSN8 Yponomeuta cuprea Meyrick, 1901 (synonymised by Meyrick in 1923)

Literature references:
J. S. Dugdale (January 1996). "Chrysorthenches new genus, conifer‐associated plutellid moths (Yponomeutoidea, Lepidoptera) in New Zealand and Australia". New Zealand Journal of Zoology. 23 (1): 33–59. doi : 10.1080/03014223.1996.9518064. ISSN 0301-4223. Wikidata Q54576386
Jae-Cheon Sohn; Shigeki Kobayashi; Yutaka Yoshiyasu (10 March 2020). "Beyond Wallace: a new lineage of Chrysorthenches (Lepidoptera: Yponomeutoidea: Glyphipterigidae) reveals a journey tracking its host-plants, Podocarpus (Pinopsida: Podocarpaceae)" (PDF). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 190 (2): 709–736. doi:10.1093/ZOOLINNEAN/ZLAA009. ISSN 1096-3642. Wikidata Q106700659.
Edward Meyrick (November 1885). "Descriptions of New Zealand Microlepidoptera. Gelechiadae. VIII. Tineina (part)". New Zealand Journal of Science. 2 (12): 591. Wikidata Q108097450.
Edward Meyrick (1923). "Descriptions of New Zealand Lepidoptera". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 54: 168. ISSN 1176-6158. Wikidata Q63102493.
Chrysorthenches in Biota NZ

[olafbanki]

Hi Siobhan, many thanks for your efforts! I have notified @dhobern. During TDWG I have written to New Zealand, and followup afterwards, but unfortunately I have not yet got a reply about the possible publication of species lists from New Zealand. I will keep on trying. Best wishes, Olaf

[SiobhanLeachman]

Hi Siobhan, many thanks for your efforts! I have notified @dhobern. During TDWG I have written to New Zealand, and followup afterwards, but unfortunately I have not yet got a reply about the possible publication of species lists from New Zealand. I will keep on trying. Best wishes, Olaf

Thanks for that Olaf, I appreciate you notifying @dhobern as I'm never quite sure whether it is appropriate for me to do this or even how to do this when raising an issue (I'm very much still a github novice). I'm sorry and disappointed to hear the folk in charge of the BiotaNZ website/dataset haven't responded to you. Tomorrow I'll reach out to a contact of mine at Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research to try and get you an answer. If that fails to get traction I'll consider writing to their CEO or even to the government minister who oversees them via an official information act request so they are forced to at least consider sharing their data. Hopefully it won't come to that. I'll let you know if I make progress. Best regards, Siobhan

[olafbanki]

I tried to contact through the GBIF Node. Perhaps people are busy. Let me do an attempt straight to the database email contact. I will keep you informed.

You might be able to assign a github issue to a person (upper right menu). But it is also good like this. We can assign the issue to the appropriate person.

[dhobern]

@SiobhanLeachman - always tag me for any involving Lepidoptera.

I've just added these to TaxonWorks - I've also taken on board the Sohn et al.'s paper's revision of this and Orthenches to Gracillariidae: Orthotellinae rather than Plutellidae: Plutellinae.

The changes will be in COL soon.

[dhobern]

[SiobhanLeachman]

Thanks for the fabulous work @dhobern - you are amazingly efficient as usual! I'll include you in any issues I raise about lepidoptera. I'm very much aware I'm only a keen amateur so please forgive me if I waste your time with errors or omissions. Also, would you mind if I took a screen shot of that Taxonworks image for reuse on Twitter/Telegram? I'm keen to show others in the Wikidata Biodiversity group what can be done to ensure species are included or how omissions can be corrected in GBIF. @olafbanki, thanks for the update. I'll hold back on contacting Manaaki Whenau myself but let me know if they don't respond. Bevan Weir is the person I was intending to reach out to as we're on the New Zealand iNaturalist advisory board together.

[dhobern]

Thanks @SiobhanLeachman - of course you can. I just uploaded the TaxonWorks Lepidoptera dataset it into the version of the Global Lepidoptera Index in ChecklistBank that feeds the monthly updates to COL. I'll contact the team at the Australian Faunal Directory about the family change for the genus.

[SiobhanLeachman]

Thanks again for your hard work @dhobern! I, and I'm sure New Zealand Lepidoptera, appreciate it.