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Dear Paul:

Sorry in advance if I am unaware of some recent phylogenetic studies those prove para- or polyphyly Palloptera, Toxoneura and Temnosira. I live in the country of no Zoological Record subscription.

Unless a revision with a good cladistics is done, further lumping-splitting activity hardly would be a good idea. Until polyphyly is proven, nomenclatural stability is the only sound reason to keep on using the practical "key classification" of J.F.McAlpine and B.Merz.

So far, I only know Ho-Yeon Han's 12S, 16S and COII mit DNA sequences for 3 Far East species on GenBank, which show nothing.

I am looking forward to see any references to the modern pallopterid cladistics.

Thank you in advance.