Flag for Taxon: Genus Neographium
| Flagger | Content Author | Content | Reason | Flag Created | Resolved by | Resolution |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| salmanabdulali | zamoner_maristela | Genus Neographium |
Neographium is now considered to be a subgenus of Eurytides. |
Jun. 14, 2022 16:53:19 +0000 | deboas |
Taxa swapped |
Comments
Are there any objections to making Neographium a subgenus of Eurytides, as it is considered in our reference for New World butterflies? Tagging top identifiers and observers
I don't know enough about the taxonomic details to have an opinion.
Thanks, Rich. As this is the treatment in our reference for this taxon, and it is non-destructive, I'll go ahead and make this swap.
Done:
Swap of N. agesilaus --> E. agesilaus (with children) because both names already existed in database
Swap of genus Neographium --> subgenus Neographium (with children)
Swap of genus E. agesilaus --> E. (N.) agesilaus (with children)
Hopefully all is now sorted. Please advise if any problems. I will now check if there are other species of Eurytides that need to be swapped into the subgenus
The subspecies are still appearing like this: Neographium thyastes ssp. marchandii so genus name still needs to be changed on them.
Can another curator advise on the most efficient way to correct this? Do I need to create all the correct subspecies combinations with Eurytides as the genus, and do a further swap for each subspecies, or is there a simpler way? I thought swapping "with children" would deal with this, but it hasn't.
@salmanabdulali are there any other species of Eurytides that should be moved to this subgenus?
Eurytides philolaus is in subgenus Neographium (Pelham)
https://www.butterfliesofamerica.com/US-Can-Cat.htm
Ok, flag opened on E. philolaus, if no objections we can swap it
@deboas a similar problem happened when I elevated Heraclides (with children) to genus level. Many species remained with Papilio in their names and the only sollution I found was to create a new taxon with the correct name and them merge the older with the new one. Took some time and apparently some observations still refused to update. Yet, I find that this may be the most straightfoward method.
Thanks, Edgar! I guess I'll go ahead and do it like that
Eurytides zonaria should also be in subgenus Neographium. See Figure 2 in Zhang et al, Genomics-guided refinement of butterfly taxonomy
http://lepsurvey.carolinanature.com/ttr/ttr-9-3.pdf
Eurytides zonaria grafted
I can see that there are some inactive taxa with the correct name, that would just need to be grafted to the right species.
@kwillmott @edgar_crispino would you advise using these, instead of creating these names afresh, or does that obscure what happened with past taxon changes? I'm not sure which is cleaner
I reactivated those inactive subspecies and grafted them correctly, seemed the simplest approach. The taxon concepts are the same, just the position of the parent species in the subgenus changed. I'll mark this flag as resolved
See Pelham's catalog at
https://www.butterfliesofamerica.com/US-Can-Cat.htm