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Message: <blockquote data-quote="plessey" data-source="post: 113568" data-attributes="member: 373">The WSC ISThe WSC is still the best place online to keep up with name changes. Just be aware that they are not any kind of authority so you don't need to wait for their approval of a paper to start changing labels. Also pay attention to any notes they make on the names. If we use the Lampropelma violaceopes situation I mentioned earlier we see the bottom entry on L. violaceopes on their page that they say - "Omothymus violaceopes <a href="http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/reference/13256" target="_blank">Smith & Jacobi, 2015</a>: 29 (T of f to Omothymus not followed here - not sufficiently justified, m probably misidentified Omothymus schioedtei)." Yet the other changes proposed in that paper such as the transfer of the Haplopelma species to Cyriopagopus and the transfer of the former Cyriopagopus species to Omothymus have been followed. This you can't do. Either the paper meets the requirements of the ICZN and you accept all the proposed changes until someone proves otherwise in another peer reviewed paper or it doesn't meet the criteria and you ignore it completely. So in this case you would ignore the WSC and call it Omothymus violaceopes (or ignore the Smith and Jacobi paper and call it Lampropelma violaceopes as well as ignoring the changes to Haplopelma and Cyriopagopus).</blockquote>