Trichoptera paraphyletic!!??; 1994 book

[Ken Kinman]

     As of 1994, I concluded that Trichoptera is paraphyletic with
respect to Lepidoptera.  In other words, the sister group of Lepidoptera
lies within the Trichoptera.  If there is an evidence to the contrary, I
would certainly change this in any future edition.  I have so busy with
evolution of bacteria and evolution of Paleozoic arthropods that I'm a
little behind on the entomological literature.
                           --Ken Kinman
P.S.  My book is still not well-known.  I apparently made a mistake in
using the term Cladisto-Eclectic in the title.  The cladists apparently
are put off by the "eclectic" part and eclecticists apparently are put
off by the "cladisto-" part, so it is probably dismissed in the belief
that a classification cannot satisfy the cladists and the eclecticists
at the same time.  As long as that belief continues, the "war" between
cladists and eclecticists will be a counterproductive aspect of
biosystematics.    In any case, the title is as follows.  The Kinman
System: Toward A Stable Cladisto-Eclectic Classification of Organisms
(Living and Extinct; 48 Phyla, 269 Classes, 1,719 Orders).  If your
university is interested ordering it, the price is $34.00, and can be
ordered directly from me (it was privately published to avoid editorial
interference in various important but controversial aspects of the
book).  I dont think PSU has it, but Duchesne (spelling?) Univ. does, as
do nearby Princeton and Cornell (but I dont' know if they let such a
reference book out on InterLibrary Loan).

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