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Message: <blockquote data-quote="thomasdonegan" data-source="post: 3586954" data-attributes="member: 5190"><p>Despite sharing uniquely long tails and appearing next to one another in many field guides... it seems from the molecular studies linked above that Lesbia and Aglaiocercus are not closely related to one another at all, so it looks like a switch of Aglaiocercus to Lesbia and a new genus for Lesbia are needed.  Unless perhaps ICZN could be asked to intervene and fix a new type genus for Lesbia, which would probably be the best outcome.</p></blockquote><p></p>