Taxonomic Swap 24401
(Committed on 2017-09-06)
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Cool. Posted in BugGuide to get their input too: http://bugguide.net/node/view/1431511. Formally, we do follow BugGuide for North American insects, so it would be good if they changed as well.
We should formally change to follow the Pohl et al checklist for North America IMHO.
BugGuide updated: http://bugguide.net/node/view/28016. Thanks for the input, Hugh. We don't follow the Pohl list, but it's probably worth considering for situations where there's conflict between authorities. For those interested it seems to be available at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/302570819_Annotated_taxonomic_checklist_of_the_Lepidoptera_of_North_America_North_of_Mexico.
BugGuide is pretty great at keeping taxonomy up-to-date, but you can imagine it's a huge task to maintain for all of insect-dom. I agree the Pohl list should be considered the new authority for moths. They're right on top of things, too. Greg Pohl was incredibly helpful with providing documents, spreadsheets, etc, when I reached out to him for the new Southeast guide.
Nice catch. That appears to be correct. The switch you are suggesting is consistent with Pohl et al (2016).