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I guess this is one aspect of the more general question of how we deal with informal ranks in general ... answering that question is surely more for the taxonomers among us, however, as all I can do is implement.
Some aspects to consider:
Automated distinction between a species proper and a group (or aggregate) centered around it might be virtually impossible in the general case.
Compatibility with third-party systems could suffer from being all too peculiar about such ranks ... in particular, I don't think GBIF or CoL can handle them or even aspire to the capability.
Adding a swath of rarely used special case option will considerably drive up complexity, for little overall benefit.
In this case the title of the treatment is not a species, but a species group. How to deal with that?
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