Add Lepidoptera hostplant breadth (NHM HOSTS)

Joins per-insect hostplant breadth from the Natural History Museum HOSTS database to a taxify() result by looking up accepted_name. Each moth or butterfly species is summarised by how many distinct hostplants and hostplant families it has been recorded feeding on.

Usage

add_hosts(x, cols = NULL, verbose = TRUE)

Arguments

x: A data.frame returned by taxify().
cols: Which columns to attach: NULL (default) the curated set, "all" every column the source carries, or a character vector of names. See enrichment_cols.
verbose: Logical. Default TRUE.

Value

The same data.frame with additional columns:

host_plant_count: Number of distinct hostplant species recorded.
host_family_count: Number of distinct hostplant families recorded.

Details

Source: Robinson et al. (2010) HOSTS, Natural History Museum, London (CC0). Lepidoptera only; ~24k species with at least one recorded hostplant.

References

Robinson GS, Ackery PR, Kitching IJ, Beccaloni GW, Hernandez LM (2010) HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants. Natural History Museum, London. doi:10.5519/havt50xw

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
taxify("Papilio machaon", backbone = "gbif") |>
  add_hosts()
} # }