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Topic: Alder gall-mite names

Hello Chris.

An email this evening set me off chasing an apparent anomaly with Alder leaf mite galls.

I have always used Eriophyes inangulis for the axillary gall (ex axillare), but I gather that the name to use now is Aceria nalepai.

NBNG at present has these as different taxa, https://data.nbn.org.uk/Taxa/NHMSYS0020190423 and https://data.nbn.org.uk/Taxa/NHMSYS0020190548, neither showing the other as a synonym.

R6 gives this:

TAXON.ITEM_NAME    Taxon key    TVK    TLIK
Aceria nalepai    NHMSYS0020190050    NHMSYS0020190423    NHMSYS0020189674
Eriophyes inangulis    NHMSYS0020190175    NHMSYS0020190548    NHMSYS0020189799

The advice I have just been given is that these should be synonymised as per the latest Shirley & Redfern.

If so, something needs adjusting in UKSI.

Murdo

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Re: Alder gall-mite names

Great - that's done now :)

Chris Raper, Manager of the UK Species Inventory, Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity,
Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD.  (tel: 020 7942 5894)
also Tachinid Recording Scheme (http://tachinidae.org.uk/)

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Re: Alder gall-mite names

Thanks, Chris.  And for the Polistes thing.

M.