Talk:Heterocrossa maculosa

Current name for species
It appears from the New Zealand Organisms Register that the current accepted name for this species is Heterocrossa maculosa (Philpott, 1927). I refer any other editors to Volume 9 of the Insects of Hawai where Zimmerman, on page 797 argues that the Heterocrassa genus should not be a synonym of Carposina as the genitalia in this genus are distinctive. This was accepted by Dugdale in Lepidoptera - annotated catalogue, and keys to family-group taxa as well as in the 2012 publication New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Unless other editors have an objection I propose editing this article to reflect this.Ambrosia10 (talk) 02:50, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

Requested move 1 June 2018

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The result of the move request was: moved as requested per the discussion below. Dekimasu よ! 20:46, 7 June 2018 (UTC)

Carposina maculosa → Heterocrossa maculosa – As explained in the updated article as well as in the above section Heterocrossa maculosa is the currently accepted scientific name for this New Zealand moth species. Please refer to the references added to the page particularly those in the taxonomy section. Ambrosia10 (talk) 05:17, 1 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Support The species is currently placed in Heterocrossa. Plantdrew (talk) 14:18, 1 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Support per refs. Basie (talk) 01:51, 7 June 2018 (UTC)


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