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vers. 16 Feb 2012 MO
Family-group names in Hymenoptera (FGNH)
Manuscript and taxon entry format
General manuscript preparation
As you know, we plan to publish the FGNH in Zookeys. Please feel free to check the journal
and the general author guidelines at
(http://www.pensoft.net/journals/zookeys/about/Author%20Guidelines#Author%20Guideline
s), although you are free to ignore most of it at the moment. I think that all manuscript
formatting should be done by one person, and I accept responsibility for this part.
An exception is the list of references, which I would like to receive more or less in the final
format. More details below.
So in the following, I will inform you, what I would like to receive from you. All text should
be in Microsoft Word format in any version available for you, although preferably Word
2010. Please don’t use any special formattings except for italics (for genus and species names
and their stems only) and bold (for entry headers). I will do the rest.
There are five manuscript parts, to which I would like you to contribute. Below I comment on
all of them:
1. Abstract, introduction, methods, theory
2. Synoptic classification of the world Hymenoptera
3. Catalog of family-group names in Hymenoptera
4. References
5. Index
In brief, all family-group names should be given in three formats:
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Synoptic classification (# 2 above; valid names only)
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Catalog (#3 above; all published names)
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Index (#5 above; all published names)
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Authorship
There are several ways to organize authorship. I would prefer that all contributers
coauthor the entire monograph instead of separate authorship by taxon responsibility. So I
would suggest the following order of author list, with all of you in alphabetical order:
Michael Ohl; Stephan Blank; Marek Borowiec; Denis Brothers; Matt Buffington; James
Carpenter; Andy Deans; Michael S. Engel; Matthias Forshage; Norman Johnson; Lynn
Kimsey; Volker Lohrmann; John Noyes; Alexandr Rasnitsyn; Dicky Yu
1. Abstract, introduction, methods, theory
This is still quite open and can include anything we think the reader should know before
reading the catalog. Please refer to the Coleoptera catalog, which has some longer technical
sections on Criteria of Availability, the Principle of Coordination (which is very important
here), and on many other aspects relevant for such a nomenclatural treatment. I think I will
leave this open for the moment and ask you to consider, if any aspect of your taxonomic part
is of some general interest and deserves a paragrpah here. In any case, please provide a list of
any nomenclatural changes newly proposed here to be summarized in the Abstract.
We might also consider playing around with some statistics, like number of family-group
names per time (decade?) since 1758. The Coleoptera paper has a list of numbers of familygroup names by author, which is quite interesting (Lacordaire is number 1 with a total of 353
family-group names. Impressing! Any hymenopterist even close to this number?).
So I am basically open to suggestions. Please send me anything you want to be included here.
2. Synoptic classification of the world Hymenoptera
This is an indented list of the state-of-the-art of the classification in Hymenoptera. This should
obviously correspond to the results of the catalog of family-group names. Both fossil and
recent taxa are included. Please use the dagger symbol for fossil taxa as used in the example
below.
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All taxon names should be accompanied by the categorial level, the author name and the year
of publication.
Don’t care too much about formatting, since I will take care about the details after the text is
complete. Please only use tabs for indentations.
Example:
Order Hymenoptera
Suborder Apocrita
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Superfamiliy Apoidea Latreille, 1802
Family Ampulicidae Shuckard, 1840
Subfamily Ampulicinae Shuckard, 1840
Tribe Ampulicini Shuckard, 1840
Tribe †Cretampulicini Antropov, 2000
Tribe †Mendampulicini Antropov, 2000
Subfamily Dolichurinae Dahlbom, 1842
Tribe Aphelotomini Ohl and Spahn, 2009
Tribe †Apodolichurini Antropov, 2000
Tribe Dolichurini Dahlbom, 1842
3. Catalog of family-group names in Hymenoptera
This is the ‚heart‘ of the manuscript and might also be the longest part. Here we should
include both available and unavailable published names.
A typical entry consists of the following data, icluding commenst:
Header: in bold
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Current category
o typically superfamily, family, subfamily, tribe, subtribe
o including suborders
o taxa at family-group level which are not formally ranked
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Taxon-name in current spelling
o Contrary to the Coleoptera catalog, not in small capitals.
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Author
o Followed by a comma and a space.
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Year of publication of original description
Entry: plain text
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Taxon-name in original spelling
o Contrary to the Coleoptera catalog, not in small capitals.
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Author
o Followed by a comma and a space.
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Year of publication of original description
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Followed by a colon and a space.
The stem of the taxon name in squared brackets and followed by a hyphen.
o Based on the stem of the genus name, thus in italics.
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Type genus: taxon name, author(s), comma, year of publication.
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Comment
o only comments specifically to any aspect of the specific entry
o If not applicable, discard ‚comment‘.
Three examples, with and without comment (in Crabronidae)
Tribe Tachytini G. E. Bohart, 1951
Tachytini G.E. Bohart, 1951: 945 [stem: Tachyt-]. Type genus: Tachytes Panzer, 1806.
Family Sphecidae Latreille, 1802
Sphegimae Latreille, 1802: 331 [stem: Sphec-]. Type genus: Sphex Linnaeus, 1758.
Comment: This family-group name has been used as ‚Sphegidae‘ based on Latreille’s
original stem Spheg- in many publications of the 19th century. However, the correct
stem is Sphec- (Menke 1992).
Tribe Palarini Schrottky, 1909
Palarini Schrottky, 1909: 249 [stem: Palar-]. Type genus: Palarus Latreille, 1802. Comment:
Palarini has been incorrectly attributed to Börner (1919) by Menke (1997). As has been
shown by Menke & Pulawski (2002), the family-group name ‚Palaridae‘ based on
Palarus has already been used by Schrottky (1909), who is hence the correct author.
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4. References
I would suggest a complete list of references including all taxon-name authorities. I would
also suggest to have a single list of references, not several lists subdivided by family or any
other classification.
I would appreciate if you could format the references according to the Zookeys standards
(http://www.pensoft.net/journals/zookeys/about/Author%20Guidelines#Author%20Guideline
s). If this, for any reason, is impossible for you, talk to me, and we will find another solution.
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5. Index
I think that an index is a very important, if not critical tool for the reader, because the main
body of the catalog is organized by classification. So it is virtually impossible to find a taxon
name without a detailled knowledge of its systematic placement.
It is very important to create the Index using automated functions as provided by Word,
particularly in long documents with large numbers of words to be indexed. The easiest way in
our case is to create the index from a so-called concordance file. This is nothing else than a
list of words, which will automatically marked for indexing. You don’t need to know all
details, because I will do the rest and create an index with page numbers from that list as soon
as I the mansucript is complete. So I would ask you to provide me with a simple list of all
available and unavailable names of the group(s) you do. As an alternative, a single-clolumn
spread sheet in Word or Excel with one name per row would also work.
Please do not use categories and authors in the list, just taxon names.
Example:
Simple List:
Laphyragoginae
Larrini
Palarini
Xenosphecini
Simple spread sheet:
Laphyragoginae
Larrini
Palarini
Xenosphecini