I am not sure the latest paper by WW et al. really is "giving clarity to the many discussions been placed on this and other
forums over the last year or two" or not. I haven't read the paper. But judging from the title of the paper and where it has been submitted, it looks like molecular characters were used, most likely mtDNA. It does confirm my claim that systematists are increasingly turning to molecular characters (whenever possible) to investigate phylogenetic relationships.

Even though I haven't read the paper, I am pretty sure that if there are any paraphyletic taxa that have been uncovered by the data, these taxa will be disqualified from the classification, given WW's professed intolerance of paraphyletic taxa because of his adherence to cladistic dogma.

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