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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.
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(I was merely identifying a little twistwing parasite from South Africa, and I wanted to get rid of the outdated "Xeninae".)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)
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.
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.
@beetledude This is not right. You merged these insects with corals. I assume you meant to swap Xeninae with Xenidae, with only one i.