A lot of taxa are automatically imported from Catalog of Life. The sourcing requirement, to follow the listed taxonomic authorities (or deviate after discussion) really refers to when you are manually adding a new taxon or committing a taxon change. Also kudos to you for also adding the original journal article/reason for the change in addition to just BugGuide. : )
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