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Topic: Hypera pastinaceae or Hypera pastinacae?

Hello Chris.

I had occasion to chase up Hypera rumicis today, and noted in passing that UKSI has the preferred name as

Hypera (Tigrinellus) pastinacEae (Rossi, 1790) - my capital 'E' -

while EOL, GBIF and PESI have

Hypera pastinacae (Rossi, 1790) - i.e. only one 'E'

and none gives pastinacEae as a synonym.  UKSI has pastinacae as a synonym.

Is it a typo?

M.

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Re: Hypera pastinaceae or Hypera pastinacae?

Hi Murdo

It seems to come from Andrew Duff's 2012 checklist with that spelling. I will email him and just see what the situation is :)

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/)

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Re: Hypera pastinaceae or Hypera pastinacae?

Andrew has confirmed that this is a typo - he has requested we just correct the name and not make it into a needless junior synonym :)

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/)

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Re: Hypera pastinaceae or Hypera pastinacae?

That sounds a pragmatic solution, Chris.  Thanks.

M.