"Phacopsis oxyspora cf. var. defecta Triebel & Rambold" should be treated similar to "Phacopsis cf. oxyspora"
@abubelinha mentioned in https://github.com/gnames/gnverifier/issues/64
Currently parsing of cf. annotation works only for species Aus cf. bus but not for infraspecies Aus bus cf. cus
Related article in the ZooCode:
5.3. Typographical signs and qualifying abbreviations excluded. A typographical sign such as ?, and an abbreviation such as aff., prox. or cf., when used to qualify the application of a scientific name, does not form part of the name of a taxon even when inserted between the components of a name.
See also "Open nomenclature" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_nomenclature
Even if those modifiers are not part of the names, I think the point here is being able to match names found in not-so-clean taxonomic lists (which sometimes contain those modifiers, as mentioned in https://github.com/gnames/gnverifier/issues/64). @abubelinha