Documenting plagiarism in a bee taxonomy paper

And what happened when I alerted the journal

In November 2020, a correction was quietly published for a paper in the Canadian Journal of Arthropod Identification. It corrected a paper originally published back in 2011, “Leafcutter and Mason Bees of the Genus Megachile Latreille (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) in Canada and Alaska” by Cory Sheffield, Claudia Ratti, Laurence Packer, and Terry Griswold (full transparency, Terry Griswold was my PhD adviser at Utah State University from 2011–2017). The text of the correction…