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  • Syrphus
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Topic: Piezura spp.

This is not perhaps best in this forum, but I am not sure where else it should go.

There has been an unfortunate confusion in the names of the two Piezura spp., both of which have at some time been called P. graminicola.  That name should now be applied to the rarer of the two, but as http://www.dipteristsforum.org.uk/t2499 … tatus.html suggests, the dots on the NBNG map for 'real' graminicola seem to apply at least in part to P. pardalina.

I imagine that this has arisen at the data input stage (there seems to be nothing wrong with the dictionary entries) and will have to be corrected by the various managers, if they are alerted.  Is there a procedure for doing that in NBN?

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2 Reply by ChrisR

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Re: Piezura spp.

The nameserver certainly looks as though it is reflecting the correct situation but, from what you are saying, it looks more likely that records have been attributed to the wrong name. This would be fiddly to fix but would have to go through Recorder or the NBN, I think.

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/)