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Gomphus subgenera

I never know exactly where to post this sort of question, but: I was just moving an image of the Banner Clubtail (Gomphus apomyius) to its proper place, and found that we have it under subgenus Gomphus. ITIS lists it in subgenus Hylogomphus, which does not exist on BugGuide. The source we use for Latin names doesn't include subgenera, so I'm not sure what people are using for a reference in this case. Can anyone clear this up for me?

Where to post
If you're asking which subgenus Gomphus apomyius belongs to, that goes under Taxonomy Proposals, as does any question about what taxonomic references we use. If you're asking whether we should have pages for subgenera, that would go under Web Site Problems and Suggestions

 
Moved to new forum.
Thanks. I see now that the breakdown of subgenera is explained on the genus page, as it should be. It follows Dragonflies Through Binoculars, which was published in 2000. ITIS cites "A synonymic list of the New World Odonata - Oct 2004, website (version Oct 2004)" as its source. The subgenus Hylogomphus was named in 2000, so ITIS is clearly more current here. So now my question is, do we want to follow ITIS or is there some great advantage to keeping the subgenera as they are in Dragonflies Through Binoculars? It doesn't make much of a difference to me.

 
nomenclature
Hylogomphus has been around for longer than that (1951), but apparently improperly described (May, M. L., and F. L. Carle. 1996. An annotated list of the Odonata of New Jersey, with an appendix on nomenclature in the genus Gomphus. Bulletin of American Odonatology 4(1):1-35. pdf, p. 32-33).
Of the other books I have handy, Nikula and Beaton recognize it but Abbott does not.

 
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As one of the people on BugGuide who actually knows something about odonates (I'm certainly not one of them), do you have an opinion about what scheme we should be following here?

 
not sure
Just got my copy of the new Paulson guide, which lists Hylogomphus but not Phanogomphus just to confuse things more.

I think I'm in favor of having them all recognized as they seem to be distinct enough that many photos can at least go to subgenus if not species but that's not a strong feeling.

 
The subgenera are already in the taxonomy.
The difficulty is finding and deciding upon an authority that lists which species are in which subgenera. We tried Odonata Central which appears to be becoming the default Dragonfly expert site, but while the subgenera are listed, the species aren't broken down by subgenera.

 
ITIS
Well, ITIS gives the subgenus for each species that it lists, and so far it seems to be the only online source that does so. I notice that ITIS only has three subgenera: Gomphus, Gomphurus, and Hylogomphus. I looked up the first species BugGuide lists under subgenus Phanogomphus -- G. australis -- and found that ITIS puts it in subgenus Gomphus. Is the Paulson guide limited to the same three subgenera, or does it have yet another combination?

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