Reporting species with a double entry

Gestart door laatvlieger, augustus 13, 2008, 17:34:38 PM

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Tobias Seifert

Citaat van: Jaap Winkelman op maart 06, 2024, 21:50:18 PMThese are not reliable sources for taxonomy and systematics. Biolib-cz is a (good) photo site and GBIF is a collection of records provided by institutions without verification.

Dear Jaap,

if you take a closer look at the forum, you will see that i often refer to this standard work. however, things from this catalogue have already been "not approved" because obs is following GBIF. I can't understand that because, as you've already mentioned, it's not really a taxonomic basis. The problem with the Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera (CPC) is that it is not available online and therefore not available to other people. That's why I always give biolib (which in my opinion is more than just a photo page - other large nature observation platforms are also based on this taxonomy...) or GBIF, as GBIF also has a good basis in some groups.

Apart from all that, I don't think this public request for taxon changes and suchlike is a good solution. I would like to see a platform where taxonomists from certain groups can exchange ideas and make decisions together, including the possibility of exchanging literature.

All the best
Tobias Seifert
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Tobias Seifert

Cicindela quadripunctata
https://old.observation.org/soort/view/889559

is a synonym to

Calomera littoralis quadripunctata
https://old.observation.org/soort/view/1191699

source:
LÖBL, I. & LÖBL, D. (2017) [Eds.]: Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Volume 1 (Revised and Up-dated Edition). – 1443 pp. (Leiden, Boston: BRILL).

Thanks!
Tobias Seifert
Museum Haus der Natur, Salzburg 🇦🇹
Validator for Beetles (Coleoptera) 🪲🌐
https://observation.org/users/169089/

hiskodevries

#1352
Tobias, this species is now a synonym of Calomera littoralis https://old.observation.org/soort/info/212462
A book is not always the best taxonomic reference, at the time it is printed the content is already outdated.
Gbif is also not a reference. We need to have an online reference or just take the best of all
Was getekend Hisko de Vries.

Wil je een fotovraag stellen op het forum lees dan dit eerst https://forum.waarneming.nl/smf/index.php?topic=452369.0