Talk:Pierinae
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Merge with Whites (butterfly)?[edit]
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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)