[HELICONIUS] Polytomy in the Heliconiini in opentreeoflife.org

[James Mallet]

Interesting project idea, a Wikipedia for phylogeny, and perhaps I 
shouldn't knock it.

But does anyone feel like correcting this polytomy in opentreeoflife.org?
*https://tree.opentreeoflife.org/opentree/opentree3.0@1766047/Heliconiini*

I counted 815 "species" in the genus /Heliconius /on this site, 
including /Heliconius wucherpfennigi/ which is a named aberration of a 
form of a subspecies of "/Heliconius clytia/" which is thought today to 
be a synonym of /Heliconius wallacei/!

No wonder they claim to have 2.3 million species! I wonder how many 
other groups have spurious species like this!

Best wishes, Jim

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James Mallet
Organismic & Evolutionary Biology
Harvard University
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www.oeb.harvard.edu/mallet/

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