Taxonomic Split 92769 (Committed on 2021-06-02)

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Taxonomic Split 92769 (Committed on 2021-06-02)

In the Handfield & Handfield, 2021 revision of Herpetogramma
https://www.zoologicalbulletin.de/articles/online-first
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H. abdominalis is synonymized with H. thestealis after the abdominalis type specimen was reidentified as thestealis. But specimens previously thought to be abdominalis are a mix of H. thestealis, H. pertextalis, H. aquilonalis n. sp., and H. fraxinalis n. sp. It would be unhelpful to relabel all abdominalis records to thestealis in a simple synonymization. This taxon change is thus a split without atlases, intended to move current abdominalis records to the genus rank. Each record should be individually reidentified given the new diagnostics in the revision.

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Added by treichard on May 31, 2021 10:57 PM | Committed by treichard on June 2, 2021