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  • Syrphus
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Topic: Listing errors - families and subfamilies

Hello Chris. I notice there is inconsistency and error in the way families are shown on, e.g. https://data.nbn.org.uk/Taxa/NBNSYS0000050803, Vespidae.  Also, not all families are displayed in the same way in regard to subfamilies. Apidae shows no subfamilies, despite subfamilies being preferred to the corresponding families - i.e. Andreninae is the preferred name for Andrenidae, etc.

The first 3 genera should be allocated to subfamilies that appear below them in the list.

And Vespa is listed under Eumeninae.

M.

Kingdom    Animalia
Phylum    Arthropoda Latreille, 1829
Class    Insecta
Order    Hymenoptera
Family    Vespidae
Genus    Ancistrocerus Wesmael, 1836
Genus    Dolichovespula Rohwer, 1916
Genus    Eumenes Latreille, 1802
Subfamily    Eumeninae
Genus    Euodynerus Dalla Torre, 1904
Genus    Gymnomerus Blüthgen, 1938
Genus    Microdynerus Thomson, 1874
Genus    Odynerus Latreille, 1802
Genus    Polistes Latreille, 1802
Genus    Pseudepipona Saussure, 1856
Genus    Pterocheilus Klug, 1805
Genus    Symmorphus Wesmael, 1836
Genus    Vespa Linnaeus, 1758
Subfamily    Vespinae
Genus    Vespula Thomson, 1869

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Re: Listing errors - families and subfamilies

Let me have a look at that waspy one ... I think I had been told to put the bees into families rather than subfamilies so there might be some debate about that one :)

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/)