Talk:Pamphila (genus)

Rationale for existence

I am not a lepidopterist. I created this page because while investigating Greek historian Pamphila (who turns out to have an article already at Pamphile of Epidaurus but now has a couple of useful redirects), I found that there were many redirects from "Pamphila xyz" to other butterfly names, where they were listed as synonyms. I found the NHM page which clarified that the name is a junior objective synonym. It still seemed that a page would be useful: if it was a current genus there would be a page listing the species. I found the list of species here and bottled out from the effort of copying the whole list and then linking each one, ideally also naming its current target, so I used the shortcut of providing a link to that listing. I hope that anyone who disapproves of this approach will improve the article rather than deleting that perhaps slightly unorthodox link. I've created a dab page at Pamphila to cover these two entities - the historian and the former genus. PamD 15:50, 14 October 2017 (UTC)

@PamD: I'm no lepidopterist either, but the usual practice is to make synonyms redirects to the current name with the template {{R from alternative scientific name}}. I've edited Hesperia (butterfly) to add the Pamphila synonym and the others I could find. Do you mind if I change this to a redirect? Thanks,  SchreiberBike | ⌨  01:40, 15 October 2017 (UTC)

P.S. Pamphile of Epidaurus looks like a really interesting lady. I sure wonder what her other books looked like.  SchreiberBike | ⌨  01:56, 15 October 2017 (UTC)

@SchreiberBike: Thanks. The problem with redirecting is that it doesn't help the reader who for some reason wants to know which species were included in the former genus. Maybe I need to copy that whole list of redirected species and link each entry - but I'd rather continue sorting out the unlinked ladies of List of women in Female Biography! PamD 04:34, 15 October 2017 (UTC)