When the website started in 1995,
Microsoft filenames were restricted to 8 characters,
so a lot of the specific names had to be abbreviated to become file names.
It led to a lot of ambiguity and arbitrary naming, and became a mess.
In 2017 we started bringing the website into the 21st Century,
and make all the filenames the same as the specific names.
This is now the system.
But: where two or more species have the same specific name in a folder,
one or more file names get the initial letter(s) of the genus appended:
cato:
Attonda trifasciata and
Mocis trifasciata
chro:
Circopetes obtusata and
Dichromodes obtusata
enno:
Ectropis excursaria and
Syneora excursaria
ereb:
Cyclodes spectans and
Speiredonia spectans
geom:
Alloeopage cinerea and
Pingasa cinerea
hepi:
Oxycanus barnardi and
Abantiades barnardi
lare:
Chrysolarentia squamulata and
Microdes squamulata
lasi:
Pararguda rufescens and
Pinara rufescens
lyca:
Danis danis and
Hypolycaena danis
lyca:
Hypochrysops miskini and
Theclinesthes miskini
lyma:
Acyphas fulviceps and
Icta fulviceps
nymp:
Oreixenica kershawi and
Vanessa kershawi
sphi:
Ambulyx dohertyi and
Daphnis dohertyi and
Macroglossum dohertyi
spil:
Haritalodes obliqualis and
Nacoleia obliqualis
spil:
Arthroschista tricoloralis and
Eurrhyparodes tricoloralis
tort:
Grapholita molesta and
Neocalyptis molesta
tort:
Spilonota constrictana and
Constrictana constrictana
The folder/directory names are in general
the first four letters of the family, subfamily, tribe or group,
with the exceptions of:
blab: BLASTOBASIDAE
blad: BLASTODACNIDAE
chro: OENOCHROMINAE
helc: HELIOCOSMA GROUP
held: HELIODINIDAE
hypn: HYPENINAE
hypo: HYPENODINAE
pyru: PYRAUSTINAE
tino: TINEODIDAE
(updated 9 July 2019, 3 July 2023)
