Flag for Taxon: Bumble Bee Hover Fly (Volucella bombylans)
| Flagger | Content Author | Content | Reason | Flag Created | Resolved by | Resolution |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| mikeburrell | Bumble Bee Hover Fly (Volucella bombylans) |
I think this species has been split: Cheng, A. 2011. Revision of the New World members of the Volucella bombylans (Diptera, Syrphidae) complex. Honours thesis, Carleton University, Canada. |
Jun. 9, 2017 20:12:16 +0000 | zdanko |
committed taxon split |
Comments
cc: @waldgeist, who brought up the same issue on the forum
@bouteloua Unfortunately, the forum thread went nowhere. Can we get this fixed? We're getting into the next year's collecting season now and these flies are starting to show up again...
The names of the new species had been added as additional names to V. bombylans. After they were deleted, I was able to add the new species as new taxa. Just need to go through the North America observations and add new determinations.
A taxon split should be created as well
Agreed. However, I don't think the split can be entered at the moment because one of the four new North American species is as yet unnamed.
I think that's OK - those former V. bombylans IDs would have to be bumped back to genus/a higher taxon instead for now.
Has this been resolved? I can't see any reason not to close the flag now.
looks like V. bombylans would still need to be split
Is there anything special that needs to be done? Or just add the species and commit? Also, wouldn't splitting make all V. bombylans IDs go to genus?
Ready to resolve this?
I don't know, I don't see why not. There are no V. bombylans observations in the New World now, so I'm not sure what effect a split would have anymore.
almost a hundred V. bombylans IDs in North America alone, looks like the split still needs to be done
Skevington et al (2019) state "Recent unpublished work by Skevington and Cheng have shown that V. bombylans is restricted to the Old World and there are four species in North America..."
Skevington, J.H., M.M. Locke, A.D. Young, K. Moran, W.J. Crins, S.A. Marshall. 2019. Field Guide to the Flower Flies of Northeastern North America. Princeton University Press. 512 pp.