Taxonomic Swap 129259
(Committed on 2023-08-11)
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@trinaroberts - noted Trina, thx. When I ran the swap there was no notification about any possible issues on the RG front. I'm not quite sure what you're implying here, because anything that was identified as Glyphodes onychinalis should automatically be changed to Chabulina onychinalis and not impact RG observations of this taxon. There should be no impact upon other taxa only identified to genus or higher ranks. Please could you link to a couple of examples to illustrate the "new disagreement" ? The new paper by Maes will result in a lot of onychinalis identifications needing reassessment as to what their actual id is...... Have you looked a the paper? I'm happy to help out on this, just need a little guidance.
cheers,
Roger.
I don't know how to prevent this, just wanted to note it in case there's some step that can be taken. Here are some examples, all currently at Tribe Margaroniini:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/171984881
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/83321423
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/83231473
And a couple that I fixed last night, so they are RG again:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/29320016
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/43097904
On all of these, the original sequence of IDs was 1) Glyphodes; 2) Glyphodes onychinalis; 3) Glyphodes onychinalis, which would have made them Research Grade. The taxon swap affected only the species-level IDs, which now disagree with the original genus-level ID of Glyphodes. This makes them go back to needs ID, until they get a third species-level ID to override the disagreement.
I don't know how many of these there are -- not a ton in my region, so we'll get that third ID eventually.
thx for following up, Trina. Now I see where you're coming from!
Not a lot can be done other than following up with individual observations and I'll have a stab at that. This is mostly an awareness issue, perhaps best addressed by using other portals (iNat projects or Facebook forums.....). I can get the ball rolling on the Moths & Moth Watching forum, where there are many international users, so not just reaching the target audience of one country.
cheers,
Roger. (aka @hkmoths)
This taxon swap did not push genus-level IDs of Glyphodes back to Tribe Margaroniini, and therefore caused research-grade observations to revert to Needs ID because of a new disagreement between IDs of Glyphodes and Chabulina onychinalis.