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NUMERICAL CLASSIFICATION: SOME QUESTIONS ANSWERED1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Christopher Wilkinson
Affiliation:
Department of Biological Sciences, Portsmouth Polytechnic, Portsmouth, England and Biosystematics Research Institute, Canada Department of Agriculture, Ottawa, Canada

Abstract

Numerical analyses have been carried out on some lepidopteran genera to find the effect of minimizing the number of characters used; the validity of drawing conclusions about the internal structure of a group which formed only a small portion of the analysis as a whole; the effect on numerical classifications when some characters are unknown for some taxa; and the diagnostic value of characters. The add-a-point program has been used to identify and to indicate the phenetic affinities of additional taxa.

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Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1974

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