Suspect Aphididae synonym pairs

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Suspect Aphididae synonym pairs

The following Aphididae species names are newly paired as synonyms by GBIF in the past year:

Acyrthosiphon lactucae with Acyrthosiphon scariolae Acyrthosiphon pisum with Acyrthosiphon norvegicum Aphis craccivora with Aphis loti Aphis fabae with Aphis salicariae Aphis gossypii with Aphis forbesi Aphis maidiradicis with Protaphis middletonii Brachycaudus cardui with Aphis jacobaeae Brachycaudus helichrysi with Dysaphis crithmi Hyalopterus pruni with Aphis arundinis Lipaphis erysimi with Lipaphis pseudobrassicae

Suggest rechecking these as they may be separate species (e.g. have separate Aphid Species File entries).

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[ManonGros]

The information comes from Aphid Species File via the Catalogue of Life. As far as I can see, all of these pairs are ambiguous synonyms. Which are translated to synonyms in the GBIF backbone:

pair	source link	type
Acyrthosiphon lactucae with Acyrthosiphon scariolae	https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/9WKM	ambiguous synonym
Acyrthosiphon pisum with Acyrthosiphon norvegicum	https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/9WJV	ambiguous synonym
Aphis craccivora with Aphis loti	https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/8P5QH	ambiguous synonym
Aphis fabae with Aphis salicariae	https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/5VLPX	ambiguous synonym
Aphis gossypii with Aphis forbesi	https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/FDWD	ambiguous synonym
Aphis maidiradicis with Protaphis middletonii	https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/4N27D	ambiguous synonym
Brachycaudus cardui with Aphis jacobaeae	https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/FDYF	ambiguous synonym
Brachycaudus helichrysi with Dysaphis crithmi	https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/386VY	ambiguous synonym
Hyalopterus pruni with Aphis arundinis	https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/8R2M2	ambiguous synonym
Lipaphis erysimi with Lipaphis pseudobrassicae	https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/3V92V	ambiguous synonym

Perhaps the ambiguous synonyms shouldn't be synonyms in the backbone? I can see there was some discussion on the definition of ambiguous synonyms: https://github.com/CatalogueOfLife/general/issues/38#issuecomment-381718224 and that it can mean different types of taxonomic status. @mdoering could there be an ambiguous synonym taxonomic status?

[Rmturner24]

See for example Aphis forbesi and Aphis gossypii which are referred to as separate species. Aphis forbesi: https://www.cabi.org/isc/datasheet/6200 http://aphid.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1165200 Aphis gossypii: https://www.cabi.org/isc/datasheet/6204 http://aphid.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1165236

Other recent articles treating these two as separate species: Brumley, C. (2020). A checklist and host catalogue of the aphids (Hemiptera: Aphididae) held in the Australian National Insect Collection. Zootaxa, 4728(4), 575-600. Koloniuk, I., Matyášová, A., Brázdová, S., Veselá, J., Přibylová, J., Fránová, J., & Elena, S. F. (2022). Transmission of Diverse Variants of Strawberry Viruses Is Governed by a Vector Species. Viruses, 14(7), 1362.