[Taxacom] CoL caught with its fly down!

Stephen Thorpe stephen_thorpe at yahoo.co.nz
Sat May 21 20:53:20 CDT 2011


Hi Neale and Taxacomers,
I have just been trying to get a good list of genera for Wikispecies of the fly 
family Tabanidae. I looked first at Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist, 
which attibutes its data to Systema Dipterorum, 2.0, Jan 2011
Now, I soon found the CoL list to be unreliable, missing valid genera, and 
including spurious genera from other unrelated fly families (e.g. Dicranomyia 
and Bombylia).
I then noted that the link that CoL gives to Systema Dipterorum leads to Systema 
Dipterorum Version 1.0. Last updated: 10 August 2010, and this, as far as I can 
tell, has the data all pretty much spot on correct!
So, wtf? What has gone wrong here?? One way or another, CoL has ended up with 
unreliable data ...
Cheers,
Stephen


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