Species can be named from photos

Thomas Pape; Allen Allison; Daniel J. Bickel; Torsten Dikow; Thomas Donegan; Donald W. Duszynski; Magdi S. El-Hawagry; Neal L. Evenhuis; Daphne G. Fautin; Stephen D. Gaimari; Babak Gharali; Dale E. Greenwalt; Hinrich Kaiser; Ashley H. Kirk-Spriggs; Gerardo Lamas; Owen Lonsdale; Christopher Mah; Stephen A. Marshall; Rudolf Meier; Michael Ohl; David J. Patterson; Lyubomir Penev; N. Dean Pentcheff; Richard L. Pyle; Daniel J. Rubinoff; Justin B. Runyon; Oliver Tallowin; Stephen Thorpe; Bo Wang Nanjing; Francisco Welter-Schultes; Douglas Yanega; Ding Yang; Gang Yao Hangzhou; Norine W. Yeung

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Species can be named from photos

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Authors:

Thomas Pape, Allen Allison, Daniel J. Bickel, Torsten Dikow, Thomas Donegan, Donald W. Duszynski, Magdi S. El-Hawagry, Neal L. Evenhuis, Daphne G. Fautin, Stephen D. Gaimari, Babak Gharali, Dale E. Greenwalt, Hinrich Kaiser, Ashley H. Kirk-Spriggs, Gerardo Lamas, Owen Lonsdale, Christopher Mah, Stephen A. Marshall, Rudolf Meier, Michael Ohl, David J. Patterson, Lyubomir Penev, N. Dean Pentcheff, Richard L. Pyle, Daniel J. Rubinoff, Justin B. Runyon, Oliver Tallowin, Stephen Thorpe, Bo Wang Nanjing, Francisco Welter-Schultes, Douglas Yanega, Ding Yang, Gang Yao Hangzhou, Norine W. Yeung

Year:

2016

Type:

Scientific Journal

Station:

Rocky Mountain Research Station

Source:

Nature. 537: 307.

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Abstract

As an international group of taxonomists who study a range of taxa, we consider that you misconstrued the case of a new insect species that was described on the basis of photographs (see Nature 535, 323–324; 2016).

Keywords

insect species, photographs, species naming

Citation

Pape, Thomas; Allison, Allen; Bickel, Daniel J.; Dikow, Torsten; Donegan, Thomas; Duszynski, Donald W.; El-Hawagry, Magdi S.; Evenhuis, Neal L.; Fautin, Daphne G.; Gaimari, Stephen D.; Gharali, Babak; Greenwalt, Dale E.; Kaiser, Hinrich; Kirk-Spriggs, Ashley H.; Lamas, Gerardo; Lonsdale, Owen; Mah, Christopher; Marshall, Stephen A.; Meier, Rudolf; Ohl, Michael; Patterson, David J.; Penev, Lyubomir; Pentcheff, N. Dean; Pyle, Richard L.; Rubinoff, Daniel J.; Runyon, Justin; Tallowin, Oliver; Thorpe, Stephen; Nanjing, Bo Wang; Welter-Schultes, Francisco; Yanega, Douglas; Yang, Ding; Hangzhou, Gang Yao; Yeung, Norine W. 2016. Species can be named from photos. Nature. 537: 307.