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There’s an excellent photo, and an apparently correct identification (Mr Brooks is seldom wrong). But iSpot has put Nowickia into the Sciaridae: I’d thought it was in the Tachinidae. Is this a recent change?
There’s an excellent photo, and an apparently correct identification (Mr Brooks is seldom wrong). But iSpot has put Nowickia into the Sciaridae: I’d thought it was in the Tachinidae. Is this a recent change?
Looks like a taxonomic error. Sciaridae and Tachinidae belong to different suborders.
yes, this is an iSpot issue and is similar to many. The iSpot dictionaries have not been updated for a few years, probably 5.
Wiki(tree) is usually reliable https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nowickia_ferox
The CoL is always up to date (six monthly) http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/details/species/id/708ccc7bd5fb541bc659322e3476cf21
All the Other Obs have the same issue
Our ‘friends’ in iNat have it right https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?verifiable=true&taxon_id=511384&place_id=&preferred_place_id=&locale=en
Oh well.
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Dictionary Update is on the wish list…