Talk:Pierinae

Merge with Whites (butterfly)?

We have:

Skipper (butterfly) with a redirect from Hesperiidae; and

Swallowtail butterfly with a redirect from Papilionidae.

It would seem to make sense to do the same thing at the subfamily level. Alastair Haines (talk) 04:07, 22 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Although in this case one is about a genus Pieris while the other is a subfamily containing more than just that genus. See Parnassius versus Parnassiinae for an analogy. Shyamal (talk) 15:57, 23 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ah! Thank you. Perhaps the other article should be moved to Garden whites (with a redirect from Pieris) and this article should become Whites (butterfly) (with a redirect from Pierinae)? What do you think?

Second question, why is Swallowtail butterfly not Swallowtail (butterfly)? Alastair Haines (talk) 01:37, 24 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've lost the Merge tag. There are at least three different clades of butterflies whose respective lists of common names include "the Whites". Each of them deserves its own article; none of these articles can be meaningfully reduced to a section of one of the other two; each of these clades has a unique scientific name anyway. Noym (talk) 19:49, 23 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]