Open mdoering opened 2 years ago
Acari is not a holophyletic group and is not used in modern classifications, but in any case, the gaps are known and actively being worked on through collaboration via the TG. Multiple mite GSDs have been added to COL in the last year, and several more are coming in the next ITIS load.
Superorders Acariformes and Parasitiformes are the bulk of the "mites", for the record
Thats great. Maybe these are all small groups, but there are large numbers of empty superfamilies as you can see above (all the ones without any orange source name next to them have NO genera or species)
Yes, we intentionally added a global classification to family (published 2011-2013) that didn't include genera or species, which are to follow. GSDs are being sought and constructed. I'm noting this to Dr. Zhang, who is part of the effort and a mite worker. Since non-global and non-complete sources are no longer used in COL that does constrain sources somewhat.
We should add all the non global parts in ITIS to the upcoming extended checklist.
There are many Zootaxa family catalogues existing in Plazi that could be used by COL:
Rhodacaridae gap filled in ITIS 3/2022 Pachylaelapidae gap filled in ITIS 3/2022 Most of the othes you mentioned are actively being worked on at ITIS now....
Correction, Rhodacaridae was not a gap in COL, you've got a 2009 GSD for it (2022 update from ITIS suggested to the taxonomy working group if they can't get a new version from the source of the 2009 one).
It seems COL is missing large parts of Acari. There are many families and superfamilies without any content, probably a relict from older times?
GBIF is in touch with http://www.miteresearch.org/ which might be a source to fill some gaps?