Topic: Apamea secalis L.
Chris, this is hurting my head thinking about this :)
The BRC card RA8 (lepidoptera) lists the species secalis in the genus Apamea, however Apamea secalis doesn't exist in the dictionary. Can you add Apamea secalis as a synonym of Mesapamea secalis BUT presumably as it's been split it should rather refer to the aggregate taxon?
I think what I want to be able to do is record Apamea secalis from before the split, but have it come out as Mesapamea secalis agg. ?
[could be worse - I could be trying to explain this on a Friday afternoon!)
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