Hi all, Forgive me if this has been discussed already. I am trying to decide how to deal with species groups in our database. Here are some real life examples. Eg. Terellia sp. (virens group) option 1: Genus: Terellia SpecificEpithet: virens TaxonCertainty: species group option 2: Genus: Terellia SpecificEpithet: sp. (virens group) Eg. Oecetis new sp.? inconspicua group option 1: Genus: Oecetis SpecificEpithet: new sp. TaxonCertainty: "?" how do I incorporate the group? option 2: Genus: Oecetis SpecificEpithet: n.sp. (inconspicua group) TaxonCertainty: "?" --------------------------------------------------- Peter T Oboyski University of California http://nature.berkeley.edu/~poboyski/ ---------------------------------------------------