Chaladze Giorgi
Ilia State University, Institute of Ecology, G305, 3/5 Cholokashvili Ave., Tbilisi, 0162, Georgia..
Zootaxa. 2017 Mar 27;4247(3):331. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4247.3.6.
Recently, a new species of Diptera was described without preserving a type specimen (Evenhuis & Masrshall 2015). This publication caused controversy among taxonomists, of which many urged to restrict image-based descriptions to exceptional cases and insisted on the need to preserve specimens for future reproducibility of observations (Ceríaco et al. 2016; Krell 2016). I agree that type material is important in taxonomy for studying features that could not be captured on images. However, in the modern digital era, the need for actual specimen to study morphology can be circumvented.
最近，一种双翅目新物种在未保存模式标本的情况下被描述（埃文huis和马斯rshall，2015年）。这一出版物在分类学家中引发了争议，其中许多人敦促将基于图像的描述限制在特殊情况下，并坚持认为有必要保存标本，以便未来进行可重复的观察（塞里亚科等人，2016年；克雷尔，2016年）。我同意模式材料在分类学中对于研究无法在图像上捕捉到的特征很重要。然而，在现代数字时代，研究形态学对实际标本的需求可以被规避。
