Hi, I’m trying to figure out how to assign species to the species Complexes I created in my specialty, the donaciine leaf beetles. They are called Species Groups in my publications, containing 4-7 species each, in the Nearctic, and some Palaearctic taxa are clearly in these groups also, imo. Anywa…

Go to the species, for example Donacia subtilis, curation, edit taxon, and then in the field of the parent replace genus Donacia by “complex Donacia subtilis” (don’t know the exact wording, my settings are in Spanish).

[image] typophyllum: replace genus Donacia by “complex Donacia subtilis” Don’t include the word “complex”. Searching scientific names anywhere in the site doesn’t work if you include the rank. This means the species will also come up, so you need to select the right one. There can be weird i…

My comment wasn’t entirely clear. As mentioned, search the field of the parent with Donacia subtilis. This finds two taxa: Complex Donacia subtilis Donacia subtilis In this case select the complex, and then save the changes (at the bottom of the page).

Thank you!! That did it. That looked like the logical solution, but I didn’t see the Complex name and wasn’t sure it’d produce the right result. Problem solved, now I can go through all the complexes and fix them

Assign species to existing species Complex

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eyekosaeder July 1, 2025, 5:29pm 4

If searching for it doesn’t work, it should be possible to just copy and paste the taxon-ID into the field.

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Assign species to existing species Complex

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