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TAXONOMIC METHODS: RELATIVE WEIGHTS APPLIED TO CHARACTERS BY CLASSICAL TAXONOMISTS IN THE GENUS IPHISEIUS BERLESE (ACARINA: PHYTOSEIIDAE)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Roger I. C. Hansell  and
D. A. Chant
Roger I. C. Hansell
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario
D. A. Chant
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario
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Abstract

Conflicting taxonomic decisions by classical systematists in the genus Iphiseius are examined against a numerical model. The relative weights given to characters are estimated by the amount each character must be changed to minimally permit each classical taxonomic decision. In the genus Iphiseius the taxonomic disagreements are due to heavy weighting of different small sets of characters based on groupings of historically prior clustering cycles.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 105 , Issue 5 , May 1973 , pp. 775 - 785
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1973

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