Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Tolmerus ? Dysmachus ? or ...

Posted by Dysmachus on 12-09-2010 21:27
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Sorry, but all of us has to accept the rules of taxonomy and nomenclature, which are international and not restrictred to a country. I don't like several news, synonyms, creations of new genera etc. But we have to use them if they are published. If you think that Paritamus is valid genus, please explain it in a paper. Nomenclature can not work without this rule - wether I life in Germany and you in the Netherlands. Pavel Lehr and Oscar Theodor separate Tolmerus and Machimus on the base of differences in the genitalia. Unfortunately this isn't visible on images. Paritamus was erected on the colour of the legs - nothing more.