[Taxacom] Discovering insect species based on photographs only

[Stephen Thorpe]

 John,The Nessie example is irrelevant. Describing a new species from inadequate photos is exactly the same as describing them from inadequate specimens, e.g. many impression fossils are in fact described from very dubiously adequate specimens (which are basically "bad photographs in rock"!) As I said in my Zootaxa paper on this subject, a good photo can be better than a bad specimen. This whole controversy is based on knee jerk responses to something outside the well entrenched norm in taxonomy, or, in other words, an innovation!Cheers,Stephen
    On Thursday, 16 December 2021, 07:21:57 am NZDT, John Grehan via Taxacom <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu> wrote:  
 
 Could someone briefly remind me of whether photo only species naming is
accepted under the current rules of nomenclature? I am sure I have a good
photo of Nesse here somewhere.

John Grehan

On Wed, Dec 15, 2021 at 7:30 AM Dilrukshan Wijesinghe via Taxacom <
taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu> wrote:

> Discovering insect species based on photographs only: The case of a
> nameless species of the genus Scaria (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae)
> expand article infoNiko Kasalo, Maks Deranja, Karmela Adžić, Roberto
> Sindaco, Josip Skejo.
> Journal of Orthoptera Research 30(2): 173-184. (14 Dec 2021)
> doi.org/10.3897/jor.30.65885
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