Taxonomic Swap 18646 (Committed on 23-12-2016)

According to Pelham, http://butterfliesofamerica.com/US-Can-Cat.htm, this taxon should be in the genus Icaricia, not Plebejus

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Added by loarie on 21 December, 2016 21:36 | Committed by loarie on 23 December, 2016
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Thoughts on this @robberfly, @greglasley, @nblock, @kueda? iNat is supposed to be following http://butterfliesofamerica.com/US-Can-Cat.htm as a taxonomic authority.

Posted by loarie over 7 years ago

@nlblock rather than the nblock you have above. If iNat follows Pelham, then I guess we follow Pelham. I don't know what the best aurthority is to follow.

Posted by greglasley over 7 years ago

It sounds good to me! I held off on some of these changes a while back because a European user didn't necessarily agree with making changes to Holarctic genera based on a North American taxonomic authority. Their argument was that the European usage was much more established. I think it's better to stick to one authority (Pelham), but I didn't want to argue at the time.

Posted by nlblock over 7 years ago

ok this is comitted

Posted by loarie over 7 years ago

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