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LEPILIST

FEATURES

LepiList contains on disk the second edition of the taxonomically-sequenced North American Butterfly Association (NABA) list of butterflies. Every butterfly is identified by its English common family, subfamily, species, and subspecies names, by its scientific family, subfamily, genus, species, and subspecies names, and by a taxonomical sequence number that tells you at a glance where the butterfly occurs in the list.

Any future change in name or taxonomy in the NABA list is easily incorporated in LepiList: species, subspecies, families and subfamilies can be added, deleted, split, combined, moved, or renamed. Furthermore, it is easy to add to LepiList the names of moths (and dragonflies) you have seen/collected in North America as well as butterflies and moths (and dragonflies) you have seen/collected elsewhere. In each of these operations all data previously recorded are brought into agreement with the new species list automatically (except for a split, where you must specify for each of the records to which of the two species or subspecies produced by the split it should be assigned).

A record gives the location, date, and circumstances in which a species or subspecies was seen/collected. Each can have a note of up to 5000 words in length. They can be recorded by using either common or scientific names, and either by scanning the list of species and subspecies names for the proper one or by using a name-finding feature. Any errors in records can be corrected easily.

  • When finding a common name you need to type only some consecutive letters located anywhere in the name. You do not need to capitalize or include the spaces, hyphens, and apostrophes that can be difficult to get right. For a scientific name you type the first syllable of the genus, a space, then the first syllable of the species.
  • Recording is made even easier by the fact that either the "full list" or a "short list" of lepidoptera names can be used. If the full list contains the butterflies of North America the short list can be those normally found in any U.S. state or in any Canadian province.

Nine built-in lists -- plus thousands of lists and annual lists that you design in any way you wish -- are updated automatically when sightings/collections are recorded. The program can display any of these lists, as well as hit lists of species and subspecies you have not seen/collected, not seen/collected as larva, not photographed, etc.

  • A list is designed for the program to display by limiting the sightings/collections on it to one -- or several -- of the following: any of the eight major world faunal zones; North America, Europe, Africa, or more than 20 other regions and areas of the world; any nation; any state, province, county, etc., of every nation; any area defined by latitude and longitude or by name; any particular trip; any species or subspecies, genus, family or subfamily; sighting/collection records which are or are not "marked" in any way you wish (e.g., "also collected," "larva," "photographed," etc.); any range of dates between 1900 and 2100; the earliest sighting/collection of each species or subspecies in any range of dates. These lists can show full information about every sighting/collection they contain, or only the common and scientific names of their species/subspecies.
A trip summary display shows the location, date, and total number of species or subspecies seen/collected on trips in any season of earlier years. It will suggest fruitful trips to take this year. There is also a display tabulating 4th of July counts and other population surveys. And another display shows for each year the initial sightings (first arrivals) or final sightings (last departures) at any location of any migrating species or subspecies.
  • Each of the many displays can be put on screen, printed on paper, or written to text or data disk files for word processors, spread sheets, general-purpose database analyzers, etc. The disk files let you include the data in a document or use it in statistical analyses and graphing.
  • If two people usually, but not always, take butterfly trips together special provisions let them record their data in the same database in a very efficient way.
At all times the program describes on screen every choice currently available to the user, and there is on-screen help. The users manual contains complete click-by-click tutorials that assume very little prior computer experience.

LepiList can be used with the Pocket PC Add-On.

For a demonstration of LepiList, click below:
LepiList demonstration

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