A form where you are welcome to deposit suggestions of English names for British moths so they can be preserved for posterity.

While out in the field, I've heard all sorts of interesting, and often entertaining, "nicknames" being used for certain moths. The common names of British moths is a topic that I have previously written about (http://www.douglasboyes.co.uk/blog/2019/01/21/moth-names/) and something I find fascinating.

This form covers both micro-moths (families where the scientific, binomial name are predominantly used) and also macro-moths (which already have both well-used English and scientific names). If suggesting a new vernacular name for a macro-moth (or a micro-moth with an established English name), please include a rationale as to why you feel its current name is inappropriate

You can submit as many suggestions as you wish. The form will stay online at this address (and can also be accessed via http://www.douglasboyes.co.uk/moth-names.html); or save link by book-marking page. The suggestions are anonymous so you will not have 'ownership' over suggested names. For clarity: just because they are submitted, there are no guarantees that they will become used in any form, nor indeed made public. They will, however, be preserved for the record. The contents of the form will be available to anyone who asks for it (please email me to request a spreadsheet of responses). It is hoped, in addition to being a collection of names that are interesting in their own right, that the responses could prove to be a useful resource for authors compiling future checklists, atlases, identification guides, or other publications well into the future.

Douglas Boyes (August 2021); douglasboyes@gmail.com.