Taxonomic Swap 115903 (Submetido em 23-10-2022)

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Adicionado(s) por beetledude em 23 de outubro de 2022, 01:32 PM | Committed by beetledude on 23 de outubro de 2022
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@beetledude This is not right. You merged these insects with corals. I assume you meant to swap Xeninae with Xenidae, with only one i.

Publicado por chrisangell mais de 1 ano antes

Also, what's your source for elevating Xeninae to family status?

If this change is correct, a number of observations ID'd as Stylopidae are potentially wrong. I think probably the best practice would have been to do a taxon split of Stylopidae into Stylopidae and Xenidae first, so that any family-level IDs would get bumped up to suborder.

Publicado por chrisangell mais de 1 ano antes

 

I am sorry for this mess. I wasn't properly looking what I did, and I confused Xeniidae for Xenidae. Mea culpa!

The minute I get home I'm writing a letter to Scott Loarie (iNat head honcho) to ask for a reversal of my mistake. Despite the warning on the taxon swap page that such a change cannot be undone, I have in the past experienced that a similar mistake was undone. (I wasn't the culprit then.)

I agree with the rest of your comment.



Also, what's your source for elevating Xeninae to family status?



My sources are legit, namely these two:

Cook JL (2019) Annotated catalog of the order Strepsiptera of the world. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 145(2) : 121–267.
https://doi.org/10.3157/061.145.0202.

Benda D, Pohl H, Nakase Y, Beutel R, Straka J (2022) A generic classification of Xenidae (Strepsiptera) based on the morphology of the female cephalothorax and male cephalotheca with a preliminary checklist of species. ZooKeys 1093: 1–134.
https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1093.72339.

 
(I was merely identifying a little twistwing parasite from South Africa, and I wanted to get rid of the outdated "Xeninae".)

I sincerely apologise for this mistake. I expect more notes like this from other people. I made a mistake. And I picked it up before anybody else, phew.

Best wishes,

Riaan
(beetledude)

 

 

Publicado por beetledude mais de 1 ano antes

Don't sweat it too much! There are some former Xeninae that are still sitting among the Cnidarians. I'm happy to help re-iD them if necessary, but I'll wait to see if the change can be reverted fully (hopefully it can).

If you end up recreating the swap, would you mind citing a source in the swap itself? Just so the record is there.

Publicado por chrisangell mais de 1 ano antes

 

Chris, thanks for your encouragement.

 


would you mind citing a source in the swap itself?


This is so ironic it will kill. Did you ever read Calvin & Hobbs? That kind of ironic.

I pride myself that every single one (more or less ... yeah ... I try) of the taxonomic changes and additions that I make on iNaturalist is at least accompanied by a thorough citation, at best with a lay explanation included. And here you catch me out in one of the rare cases where I was in a hurry and decided to add the references only later.

 
"Oh man, the irony is just sickening."
—Calvin.

 

Publicado por beetledude mais de 1 ano antes

Ah, my apologies! I hope you don't feel like I'm getting on your case! That's not my intention.

Publicado por chrisangell mais de 1 ano antes

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