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Last one for the week, I hope.
Leptocera breviceps (Stenhammar, 1855) in the R3.3 list
should be returned as
Rachispoda breviceps (Stenhammar, 1855), NBNSYS0100027509.
In R6, the latter is not recognised when searching unrestricted, and is not in the obvious place in the DIPTERA list.
When entered as L. breviceps, it is exported with a blank Rec. Taxon name no subgenus.
M.
Chris
According to the Dictionary Rachispoda breviceps is not on the cuurent Diptera checklist. The Taxon_List_Item key is there, but the Taxon_List_Version_To field is set to NBNSYS0100000016 which in effect means it was removed from the list at that version. The problem is that NameServer points Leptocera breviceps to it, which in effect means that its is pointing to nowhere, hence the results described above. Not sure where we go from here. I can't see how we can ever have a recommended TV key which doesn't point to a preferred TLI key on at least one current list ?
This is an odd one. I will check with Peter Chandler and see what he says has happened to that taxon.
EDIT: I have gone back to an updated Chandler Checklist and it seems that, in the true sense of the name, it has been deleted from the British list as a taxon-concept. Chandler says "In the revision by Rohá?ek (1991), L. (Rachispoda) breviceps (Stenhammar, 1855) in the sense of Pitkin (1988) was found to be a species complex and breviceps itself was not confirmed to be British. It was, however, retained in the 1998 list but following Rohá?ek (2001) it is now deleted from the British list.".
I think that, as it was struck from the British list, Charles decided to remove it from the checklist but he couldn't delete the name or the concept. So it remained as a taxon concept in Nameserver & Organism but Organism should have been flagged as 'Non Native' = Y. I have marked it a non-native now.
The only issue now, in the back of my mind, is whether this species complex (and any associated records) has been expressed correctly in the synonymising of the names. Not sure whether I am qualified to take a ruling on that though. :/ Perhaps there should be a "sens. lat." to contain breviceps to allow for records misapplied to it that should be going against the other parts of the complex?
Update - I have created a new name:
Rachisopoda breviceps (Stenhammar, 1855) s. lat., pre 1991
tvk NHMSYS0021009148
Which will contain the old breviceps names and redefines them as an aggregate, prior to 1991. :)
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