Flag for Taxon: Genus Cisthene
| Flagger | Content Author | Content | Reason | Flag Created | Resolved by | Resolution |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gcwarbler | kueda | Genus Cisthene |
wholesale synonymization of Illice with Cisthene was inappropriate. |
Oct. 11, 2022 15:20:26 +0000 | gcwarbler |
Current placement of Illice as synonym is appropriate but this requires further research. |
Comments
Looks like this was done by @tonykris https://www.inaturalist.org/taxon_changes/107489 - looping them in so curators can get on the same page - its hard for groups like this where there's no single/global reference we can follow
Looping in this duplicate flag https://www.inaturalist.org/flags/590275
I am preparing a literature review of the complex and convoluted history of Illice and Cisthene. For the time being, lacking anything in more detail at the proper placement of various taxa on a case by case basis, it seems that Illice is presently confined to synonymy.
@tonykris any chance you can look at this?
On iNaturatlist, at some point the genus Illice was submerged in its entirety with Cisthene. One flag linked this to https://www.nic.funet.fi/, a secondary and inappropriate taxonomic source. The impetus for the FUNET synonymy of Illice under Cisthene may have been from Schmidt & Opler's 2008 "Revised checklist of the tiger moths of the Continental United States and Canada" (ZooTaxa 1677), but the latter synonymy was apparently intended to apply only to North American taxa. A large set of Central and South American Illice species were not addressed by Schmidt & Opler and probably should have been retained in a narrower concept of Illice. This all needs further review by an appropriate authority.