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Abstract: The non‐destructive investigation of type specimens, the need to interpret available taxonomic descriptions, and the requirement to give statistical evidence for a presented hypothesis will guarantee that careful investigation and numeric recording of phenotypic characters will remain the basis of taxonomic work in insects, even if the progress of molecular genetics should continue to unexpected levels. A process of how to discriminate most similar insect species by means of external morphology is explained step by step. The process includes: (a) the reproducible and practicable definition of characters; (b) the reduction of errors during stereomicroscopic investigation and data recording; (c) the application of pair comparisons in discriminative calculations; (d) the description and removal of allometric variance; (e) the use of discriminant functions; and (f) the final removal of variance by consideration of nest means. The avoidance or reduction of 10 types of error occurring during stereomicroscopic investigation is explained. A linear regression of a weighted (indexed) character against a measure of body size is the recommended method to describe continuous allometri
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- Author
- B. Seifert
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (Blackwell Publishing); Blackwell Publishing Inc.; Verlag Paul Parey; Wiley (ISSN 0931-2048)
- Published
- 2002
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)