Major apology (was major bee omission in Nomina)

[Doug Yanega]

I just now realized, in a moment of embarrassing awareness, that I jumped
to a conclusion based on a sample size of 2; fool that I am, I forgot that
the Nomina drew a magic line at the Mexican border, and the omitted Perdita
species were - at the *time* - not recorded from the US, even though some
are now known to occur on this side of the border, especially in the
Sonoran desert region (my sample size of 2, which happened to be the ones
that drew my attention to the "missing" names). That certainly explains
things, and I apologize for crying wolf without remembering the definition
of "Nearctic" - dontcha just love political boundaries?
        Interestingly, others have contacted me privately and said that
they know of numerous legitimately missing species or long-outdated names;
we may need a web site somewhere to house the known errata, from the sound
of things, even if my list was just a false alarm.

Peace,


Doug Yanega       Dept. of Entomology           Entomology Research Museum
Univ. of California - Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521
phone: (909) 787-4315
                  http://www.icb.ufmg.br/~dyanega/
  "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness
        is the true method" - Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chap. 82