Taxacom: Macaria pustularia or minor surprises when matching taxons by name only...

Markku Savela Markku.Savela at iki.fi
Wed Jul 10 00:54:45 CDT 2024


I'm working on importing various checklist from Checklist bank and other 
sources and trying match the names in them with my data, and ran into 
this...

Hyalospectra pustularia (Walker, 1861) originally describes as
    Macaria ? pustularia Walker, 1861

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Macaria pustularia (Guenée, 1857) original
    Stegania pustularia Guenée, 1857

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Just shows that author names with taxon names are needed. However, it is 
amazing how few cases like this there are. Mostly, plain (accepted) name 
just works. iNaturalist lists don't have author names and sometimes it 
is hard to tell what the name actually refers to.

I released the "first rough cut" of this few weeks ago, in there 
incorrect match is visible at

 
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There are many other quirks and odd matching all over, but working on 
improved release...


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