Orthoptera Oecanthinae Taxonomy Terms

I noticed iNaturalist has begun using the term ‘complex’ instead of the historically used ‘group’ i.e. nigricornis species group; karschi group… This term was used in papers by T. Walker, D. Otte and R. Toms. Why the new terminology? Thank you.

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The problem is that iNaturalist doesn’t support the taxon rank “species group”. This is also a problem for spiders, as “species group” is commonly used in spider taxonomy as well. See https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/create-a-new-taxon-rank-for-inaturalist-the-species-group/14543.

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