1 Topic by ser

  • ser
  • ser
  • Administrator
  • Offline
  • From: Staffordshire Ecological Recor
  • Registered: 24-09-2008
  • Posts: 603

Topic: Caddisfly preferred list

I have recently built a caddisfly atlas for the LRC's website (atlas.staffs-ecology.org.uk), and I noticed that the 'preferred' caddisfly checklist in Recorder (i.e. the one prefixed by a space) only includes 47 taxa, missing many of the common species (The RA39 list contains 202 taxa) - is this a problem with my copy of Recorder (dictionary version 10) or is there a serious problem with this list?

Craig

Craig Slawson
Staffordshire Ecological Record

ser's Website

2 Reply by ChrisR

  • ChrisR
  • Administrator
  • Offline
  • Registered: 27-08-2011
  • Posts: 1,131

Re: Caddisfly preferred list

Hi Craig - this is probably best answered by the Recorder people but in the Species Inventory I have 2 'preferred' lists:
- the 47-name "A review of the Trichoptera of Great Britain", which I presume just lists the rarities (it's what reviews tend to do)
- the 202-name "BRC record card RA39 - Trichoptera", which should list everything known at the time

I'm wondering whether "A review of the Trichoptera of Great Britain" should have its preferred status revoked?

Chris Raper, Manager of the UK Species Inventory, Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity,
Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD.  (tel: 020 7942 5894)
also Tachinid Recording Scheme (http://tachinidae.org.uk/)

3 Reply by charliebarnes

  • charliebarnes
  • Veteran
  • Offline
  • From: Greater Lincolnshire
  • Registered: 07-09-2008
  • Posts: 1,396

Re: Caddisfly preferred list

See ... http://forums.nbn.org.uk/viewtopic.php?id=1289 (and http://forums.nbn.org.uk/viewtopic.php?id=1581 !)

Charlie Barnes
Information Officer
Greater Lincolnshire Nature Partnership

charliebarnes's Website

4 Reply by ser

  • ser
  • ser
  • Administrator
  • Offline
  • From: Staffordshire Ecological Recor
  • Registered: 24-09-2008
  • Posts: 603

Re: Caddisfly preferred list

Charlie,

Oops, just realised one of the links you posted was me complaining about exactly the same thing - brain's obviously going!

Craig

Craig Slawson
Staffordshire Ecological Record

ser's Website