Hi all, I haven’t done much taxon editing and wanted to check here first. The iNat taxonomy currently has two names for one crane fly species, Limonia maculata (the name used on Bug Guide) and Rhipidia maculata (used in the Crane Flies of the World Catalog, subgenus was elevated to genus by someon…

It would a swap from the one you want to eliminate to the one you want to keep. My two cents: One way to help figure out the best authority would be to first add a flag to the one you want to eliminate, then draft, but don’t commit the swap. That means it will be visible for comment for a while on …

Also, tag in local and taxon experts/ top identifiers for both iterations of the species in a comment on the flag. That way they can’t complain they weren’t warned, and will hopefully respond in their own comment.

Curating question - two names, one species on iNat

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kschnei May 20, 2019, 3:47am 4

Thanks - I appreciate the advice, sounds very reasonable to me.

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