Taxonomic Swap 76648 (Committed on 2020-05-29)

Hayden, J.E. & J-F. Landry, 2020. Arcola malloi (Pastrana), the alligatorweed stemborer, a new synonym of Macrorrhinia endonephele (Hampson) (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae: Phycitinae). Insecta Mundi, 0768: 1-25

"Abstract. Arcola malloi (Pastrana, 1961) is a junior subjective synonym of Macrorrhinia endonephele (Hampson, 1918) syn. nov. (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae). The species is a biological control agent introduced in United States and Australia to control alligatorweed, Alternanthera philoxeroides (Mart.) Griseb. Amaranthaceae). The synonymy is recognized by comparison of type specimens, genitalic dissections, and DNA COI barcoding."

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Added by krancmm on May 30, 2020 12:49 AM | Committed by krancmm on May 29, 2020
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@bouteloua All of a sudden my brain went numb and "replaced with" doesn't make sense. Moving/merging all Arcola into existing Macrorrhinia so this is correct, yes?

Do I have to specifically make Arcola malloi inactive or will it automagically happen?

Posted by krancmm almost 4 years ago

The setup looks right to me! Things that'll happen when you press commit:
-Arcola malloi will be automagically inactivated
-IDs of Arcola malloi will be withdrawn by the system and replaced by the system with M. endonephele IDs*
-all the places A. malloi is listed as occurring (place checklists) will be transferred to M. endonephele
-any existing synonyms of A. malloi, common names, and conservation statuses will be transferred

So just hitting commit is the final step.

*sometimes this can take a few hours for species with a lot of observations

Posted by bouteloua almost 4 years ago

@bouteloua Thanks Cassi! It's not like I've never done one before... maybe I just had a little TIA.

But I will have to specifically set the USA status to "introduced" for M. endonephele, yes? It's now erroneously considered native. The paper mentioned that the introduction into Australia never "took" for some reason, so I don't know whether to bother w/ Australia as there are no obs.

Posted by krancmm almost 4 years ago

it should automatically transfer the introduced statuses over when you commit (e.g. https://www.inaturalist.org/listed_taxa/7717378)

Posted by bouteloua almost 4 years ago

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