Hopefully, a more complete and updated set of comments will be included in the next release. In general, characters of the second group have been given lower reliabilities and thus do not usually appear at the top of the lists which are automatically produced during the course of an identification. Many of the characters used here have clear-cut states, while other are a bit fuzzy . Several of the latter group are three-state ordered characters, with state 2 being intermediate between 1 and 3. When in doubt, two states can be selected instead of one.
Several characters require a measurement or the ratio of two measurements to be placed in a box.
Comparisons were also made with published figures and descriptions. In a very few instances, specimens were not available for dissection and character states were obtained from external examination alone, making it necessary to code some characters as unknown . The ovipositor and female internal tract were not studied and no characters have been based on these structures. 22nd December 2000. Lawrence et al .