Taxonomic Swap 8760 (Committed on 2014-09-18)

Now in segregate genus as Veromessor andrei. See

http://www.antweb.org/description.do?genus=veromessor&species=andrei&rank=species&project=allantwebants
http://bugguide.net/node/view/287208

Change originally comes from

Ward, P. S.; Brady, S. G.; Fisher, B. L.; Schultz, T. R. 2014. The evolution of myrmicine ants: phylogeny and biogeography of a hyperdiverse ant clade (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Systematic Entomology (2014):1-21. 142630. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/syen.12090/pdf

but it's closed-access.

AntWeb (Citation)
Yes
Added by choess on September 18, 2014 12:19 PM | Committed by choess on September 18, 2014
replaced with

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In case you want to provide a reference, that combination was a result of Ward et al. (2014):

WARD, P. S., BRADY, S. G., FISHER, B. L. and SCHULTZ, T. R. (2014), The evolution of myrmicine ants: phylogeny and biogeography of a hyperdiverse ant clade (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Systematic Entomology. doi: 10.1111/syen.12090

I've been using it as a source for some taxon changes regarding myrmicine ants, so you should be able to find it in the source list.

Posted by duarte over 9 years ago

Is http://www.antweb.org a pretty respected global authority for all ants? Ideally all changes should cite an authority, not the primary literature (though you could include a link to the source paper in the description). We'd prefer to cite authorities over the primary literature b/c it reduces the potential for taxonomic arguments: if we cite the primary literature we could potential argue over the validity of every paper, while if we cite authorities like antweb, we can just argue over the choice of authorities. The problem is that there aren't that many global authorities.

Posted by kueda over 9 years ago

Yes, AntWeb is mantained by ant experts. It might be a good idea to add it to the list of sources in the curator guide. By the way, they did adopt the changes proposed by the authors above.

Posted by duarte over 9 years ago

Cool, so let's try and follow AntWeb for ants then. I wish they had information about what happened to outdated names, though. I updated the curator's guide.

Posted by kueda over 9 years ago

Just noticed AntWeb is one of the websites involved in AntCat, an online catalogue (there's a link to it in the toolbar of AntWeb), and AntCat does provided information about the valid name.

Posted by duarte over 9 years ago

Sort of. They don't have a single URL that corresponds to a taxonomic concept like WoRMS does or anything, do they?

Posted by kueda over 9 years ago

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