About this database

Use the form above to search the French Polynesia Lepidoptera database compiled and structured for the web by Peter Oboyski. Please note that contradictory information (eg. selecting an island and an archipelago to which it does not belong, or typing a genus and a family to which it does not belong) may result in no records being returned. Therefore it is advised to enter the minimal information needed to return the desired records.

This site is currently under construction (December 2010). Although functional, data entry and reorganization of presentation style are ongoing.

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Acknowledgements: Photos are of specimens maintained at the Bishop Museum (Honolulu), US National Museum / Smithsonian Institute (Washington), or Essig Museum of Entomology (UC Berkeley, California). Many thanks to George Roderick, Rosemary Gillespie, Curtis Ewing, David Hembry, Brad Balukjian, April Yang, Matt Medieros, and Elin Claridge (UC Berkeley); Cheryl Barr and Gordon Nishida (Essig Museum); Neal Evenhuis, Keith Arakaki, and Shep Meyers (Bishop Museum); John Brown and Don Davis (USNM/Smithsonian Institute); Jean-Yves Meyer and Priscille Frogier (Delegation a la Recherche, FP); and Neil Davies, Jerome Petit, and the staff and research team at the Gump Research Station (Moorea, FP) for support, assistance with field collections, and/or access to museum collections. Funding for this effort comes from the National Science Foundation (French Polynesia Terrestrial Arthropod Survey) and the Moore Foundation (Moorea BioCode Project).

If you have questions, comments, corrections, or would like to contribute data, please contact Peter Oboyski.