Exist sub-species?????

[Chris Carlton]

Subspecies might exist, but as a nomenclatural issue, species are fussy
enough. The cobwebby area at the fork of cladogenesis is no place to be
trying to pigeonhole intraspecific variants by giving them trinomials.

Chris Carlton, Ph.D.
Director, Louisiana State Arthropod Museum
Editor, Coleopterists Bulletin
Department of Entomology
Life Science 402
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA  70808-1710

E-mail: ccarlto at unix1.sncc.lsu.edu
Phone: 225-388-0425 Fax: 225-388-1643
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