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Home » Forums » Taxonomy Proposals

Phymatidae vs. Phymatinae

Quoted from the web site of the Heteropteran Systematics Lab at UC Riverside:

"Phymatinae have been considered as a distinct family within Cimicomorpha (Froeschner & Kormilev 1989, Maldonado 1990), and the name Phymatidae is still being used in some current literature and popular websites (eg. whatsthatbug.com, bugguide.net). Carayon et al. (1958) were the first to reduce Phymatidae to a subfamily within Reduviidae, based on shared derived characters. In a recent cladistic analysis (Weirauch 2008), the placement of Phymatinae as a member of the subfamilies of Reduviidae was confirmed. Therefore, the name Phymatidae should no longer be used."

Thoughts? I see that Eric's book uses Phymatinae, so I'll count that as one vote in favor of changing...
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Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 8 January, 2009 - 7:18pm

Changed to Phymatinae.
No one has protested after three months.
… Charley Eiseman, 16 April, 2009 - 8:32am login or register to post comments

 
Thank You
Thanks to all.
… David Moll, 17 April, 2009 - 9:18am login or register to post comments

 
Great, and that's the way Max
set it up on the Info page here
… john and jane balaban, 16 April, 2009 - 9:19pm login or register to post comments

 
...
Yes, I made a slight adjustment on that page (it had said that BugGuide still treats it as a separate family, but I changed it so it says it used to be a separate family)
… Charley Eiseman, 17 April, 2009 - 8:00am login or register to post comments

No One Seems Interested
If you missed it, check eight lines down (now 14 lines down), 19th November, 2008. Thanks anyway.
… David Moll, 29 January, 2009 - 6:17pm login or register to post comments

 
Well...
That's two votes in favor (or three, if we count Eric), and none opposed. A few more weeks of silence and I'll just go ahead and do it.
… Charley Eiseman, 29 January, 2009 - 8:17pm login or register to post comments

 
Once again it would be a great help if there were
an editorial board who would be charged with and yielded the authority to make such decisions. Questions such as this wouldn't just sit here in limbo until some editor took it upon him or herself to just make the change. Wish we knew enough to help answer the question, but we just don't. Sorry. We've got our fingers crossed that after BugGuide 2.0 gets off the ground a process can be developed to get decisions, one way or the other, on questions such as these. We'll see...
… john and jane balaban, 29 January, 2009 - 8:15pm login or register to post comments

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