Dear Steve,

Can you find me the full authority for the name, then I shall add it to the Dictionary. Interestingly, I see that it is not included in the Coleopterist 2008 Checklist, nor is it in Fauna Europaea.

I am afraid it won't make the next update to Recorder, but I shall be able to give you a TAXON_VERSION_KEY that you can use for the name.

Regards,

Charles Hussey

NBN Species Dictionary Project Manager (Retired!)

Charles / Steve
Just a quick note regarding the dictionary updates. Ideally people should not try adding entries to the Recorder dictionary directly except through the recognised routes (I dont imagine you would but it is worth just emphasising the point here). The 'recognised routes' are:
- adding a taxon through the dictionary interface - this adds an entry to the dictionary and gives it a local key. The main purpose is to allow a user to carry on entering records until a dictionary update can be shipped at which point any records made against the temporary entry should be remapped to the system supplied one
- downloading an update to the dictionary as published through the Recorder website - this is the route through which changes to the NBN dictionary should be added to a copy.

If users attempt to force entries directly into the tables from the backend, even if these have the same keys as the system supplied ones, the risk is that the dictionary begins to diverge and the update mechanism may not overwrite the entries that have been forced in.

Best wishes
Steve