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  • 'Spongy Moth' Adopted as New Common Name for Lymantria dispar

    Mar 2, 2022
    https://entsoc.org/news/press-releases/spongy-moth-approved-new-common-name-lym…

    Entomological Society of America.

    The ESA Governing Board voted unanimously last week to approve the addition of "spongy moth" to ESA's Common Names of Insects and Related Organisms List, completing a process started in July 2021 when the previous name, "gypsy moth," was removed due to its use of a derogatory term for the Romani people. Translation of the French name is based on the destructive forest pest's sponge-like egg masses.

  • ‘Northern Giant Hornet’ Adopted as Common Name for Vespa Mandarinia

    Jul 25, 2022
    https://entsoc.org/news/press-releases/northern-giant-hornet-common-name-vespa-…

    Entomological Society of America.

    The Entomological Society of America has adopted "northern giant hornet" for the species Vespa mandarinia in its Common Names of Insects and Related Organisms List. Vespa mandarinia is an invasive hornet native to Asia that has been the target of eradication efforts in Washington state, USA, and British Columbia, Canada, after individual hornets were first discovered there in 2019. It has been referred to elsewhere as "Asian giant hornet" or "murder hornet."

  • Common Names of Insects Database

    https://www.entsoc.org/publications/common-names

    Entomological Society of America.

    The Entomological Society of America (ESA) Common Names database is an essential reference for anyone who works with insects. It includes more than 2,000 common names and is searchable by common name, scientific name, author, order, family, genus, and species.
    See also: Better Common Names Project which aims to ensure common names are respectful, inclusive, and accurately descriptive.

  • Explore Taxonomic Tree

    https://www.fws.gov/explore-taxonomic-tree

    DOI. Fish and Wildlife Service.

    The species taxonomy defines groupings of biological organisms based on their shared characteristics. These groupings, called taxa (or singular taxon), are arranged based on taxonomic rank in which the deeper down the tree you are, the more granular the grouping characteristics are. This tree structure, with branches further down the line getting more specific, creates an overall hierarchy for categorizing life.

  • Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) Backbone Taxonomy

    https://www.gbif.org/dataset/d7dddbf4-2cf0-4f39-9b2a-bb099caae36c

    Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

    The GBIF Backbone Taxonomy is a single, synthetic management classification with the goal of covering all names GBIF is dealing with. It's the taxonomic backbone that allows GBIF to integrate name based information from different resources, no matter if these are occurrence datasets, species pages, names from nomenclators or external sources like EOL, Genbank or IUCN. This backbone allows taxonomic search, browse and reporting operations across all those resources in a consistent way and to provide means to crosswalk names from one source to another.
    See also: GBIF Introduces New Version of the Backbone Taxonomy (Sep 9, 2019). The new version of the taxonomy adds approximately 725,000 names, around 85 per cent of them animals. The update also adds 100,000 accepted species names not previously included in the backbone.

  • Proposed Common Name Change for Asian Giant Hornet and Other Hornets

    https://www.entsoc.org/publications/common-names/proposed

    Entomological Society of America.

    The Entomological Society of America (ESA) is accepting comments until June 10, 2022 on a proposed common name for Vespa mandarinia and two related species of Vespa hornets.  Although Vespa mandarinia has been detected in the Pacific Northwest, the other two hornets are not known to occur in the United States.  Currently, Vespa mandarinia is being called many different names in the popular press, but no ESA authorized common name has been established. See Common Names section for more information as it becomes available.

  • Renaming Species: The Quest to Decolonize Animal Names

    Aug 25, 2023
    https://www.nature.org/en-us/magazine/magazine-articles/new-common-names/

    The Nature Conservancy.

    The Movement to Rename Species. The common names of some species have not aged well. These scientists want to change them. The impact of a name that offends can be far-reaching.