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Topic: Epermenia illigerella

There seems to be a problem with this taxon on the NHM website - searching gives three results:

Epermenia illigerella (Hübner, [1813])
Epermenia illigerella Hubner
Epermenia illigerella auctorum, misident.
All three link to the same entry:

Epermenia illigerella (Hübner, [1813])  TVK NHMSYS0000519713 with a synonym of Epermenia illigerella Hubner TVK NBNSYS0000026063

However, the entry for Epermenia falciformis (Haworth, 1828) TVK NBNSYS0100003026 has a synonym of Epermenia illigerella auctorum, misident. TVK NHMSYS0000504782

Surely the entry for 'auctorum' under the search should link to the falciformis page rather than illigerella !

Craig

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Re: Epermenia illigerella

Hi Craig

Thanks for pointing that out. On my own website here it brings out the correct information (so the database is correct) but there seems to be a bug in the "auctorum" link on the NHM site in that it points to illigerella, not falciformis. Bit of an oddity there but I hope that we will be redesigning that part of the site some time in the autumn to make the site much easier to use and more intuitive :)

I will mention it to the developers though in the meantime and see if they can fix it.

Best wishes,
Chris R.

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/)