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Taxonomy Keroplatidae (Diptera: Sciaroidea)

Hi all,

the current used taxonomy of Keroplatidae is somewhat inconsequent. We need the subfamilies to include Macrocera properly. I would like to suggest adopting the taxonomy proposed in the world catalog of Keroplatidae by Evenhuis (2006)(1).

so long,
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Contributed by Bjoern Rulik on 5 November, 2010 - 6:41am

Extra layers
I don't think anything is incorrectly placed according to the catalog. There are missing intermediate levels.

The system requires family, genus, and species. I usually don't create extra intermediate levels that would contain only one lower level taxon, either because it is monotypic or because we only have photos from one genus in a tribe, family in a superfamily, etc.
… John F. Carr, 5 November, 2010 - 9:42pm login or register to post comments

 
OK......
Anyway, it looks somewhat weird to me having Macrocerinae togehter with Keroplatinae in one pool.

so long,
… Bjoern Rulik, 6 November, 2010 - 3:16am login or register to post comments

 
Reordered
I moved Macrocera out from between the two tribes of Keroplatinae (i.e. changed the order from alphabetic to taxonomic).
… John F. Carr, 6 November, 2010 - 6:36am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks!
Looks quite better.

so long,
… Bjoern Rulik, 8 November, 2010 - 12:13pm login or register to post comments

 
Bjoern:
could you pls drop me a word offline to vmarfus on gmail? thanks! =v=
… v belov, 8 November, 2010 - 1:11pm login or register to post comments

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