I have made a couple of postings recently querying the way that the dictionary deals with gall causers (Puccinia urticata, Eriophyes galii, perhaps another one somewhere).  Now I find another with a similar apparent fault.

Acalitus longisetosus (Nalepa, 1892)  TaxonVersionKey: NHMSYS0020703336 is a good name, but

Eriophyes longisetosus TaxonVersionKey: NBNSYS0000033013 (a bad name, no authority)

which should be a synonym of Acalitus is returned separately.

The fact that the same problem has turned up in three different gall causers (one rust, two mites) would seem to suggest that all is not well in the relations between synonyms in the relevant checklists, and that the tables should be checked.  It is extremely improbable that I have casually and randomly come on the only examples of what seem to be errors.

If the current situation is correct, I would welcome clarification.  It is not, however, helpful to have synonyms mapped separately when one calls up a map on the Gateway.  In this case the 'good name' returns no map at all, while the bad name shows four dots.

Murdo