Hi Rob
Nothing significant has happened but I bumped into Tom Humphrey of the BSBI at a meeting a month ago (it seems to be the season for meetings, workshops & conferences!) and he seemed to think that he could extract what they hold. I haven't had time to chase this up yet, as I have been working on the huge MSBIAS checklist and the GBNNSIP checklist of non-natives, but I will do when I get a slot. I have also been given a spreadsheet copy of the Stace3 names and I could use this but I'd rather use whatever the BSBI hold if it is possible to get hold of this fairly quickly.
In the meantime I am happy to create any names/concepts that people need to get them over a particular problem. I recently had to look at Dactylorhiza because I have been sent an old name (used in a statute) that doesn't even map to a current concept! While looking at this I also re-jigged a few of the names to match Stace3.
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/)
