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Taxonomic Swap 110449 (Committed on 2022-05-11)

Chloraspilates is treated as a synonym of Numia in
Pitkin, L.M., 2002. Neotropical ennomine moths: a review of the genera (Lepidoptera: Geometridae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 135(2-3): 121-401.
https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1096-3642.2002.00012.x

See also https://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/species.php?hodges=6700

This change also eliminates the duplicated species taxa for bicoloraria and minima in iNat taxonomy, which are listed under both genera.

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Added by treichard on May 12, 2022 12:15 AM | Committed by treichard on May 11, 2022
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The more recent checklist by Pohl et al. (2016) did not follow Pitkin's generic concept for these two genera. Do you know if that was a positive choice by Pohl et al., or just an oversight? MPG has changed the genera in line with Pitkin but BugGuide has not.

Posted by gcwarbler almost 2 years ago

I don't know the past thinking. There is overlap in the MPG editors, BG Lepidoptera editors, and the authors of the upcoming update to the Pohl et al. 2016 & 2018 Lepidoptera checklists. Adopted changes usually show up first on MPG, which BG follows.

Posted by treichard almost 2 years ago

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