[HELICONIUS] Polytomy in the Heliconiini in opentreeoflife.org

[James Mallet]

Interesting! -- opentreeoflife.org have Heliconius timareta thelxinoe, 
but they do not have the name florencia in the Heliconius names. Maybe 
it depends on in which journal you publish?

J

On 18/09/2015 21:38, James Mallet wrote:
> Interesting project idea, a Wikipedia for phylogeny, and perhaps I 
> shouldn't knock it.
>
> But does anyone feel like correcting this polytomy in opentreeoflife.org?
> *https://tree.opentreeoflife.org/opentree/opentree3.0@1766047/Heliconiini*
>
> I counted 815 "species" in the genus /Heliconius /on this site, 
> including /Heliconius wucherpfennigi/ which is a named aberration of a 
> form of a subspecies of "/Heliconius clytia/" which is thought today 
> to be a synonym of /Heliconius wallacei/!
>
> No wonder they claim to have 2.3 million species! I wonder how many 
> other groups have spurious species like this!
>
> Best wishes, Jim
> -- 
> James Mallet
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> James Mallet
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