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'Unidentifieds' for South Africa list #705

Open stevewoodhall opened 1 month ago

stevewoodhall commented 1 month ago

@DavidRoy this will work for South Africa and for Botswana, and probably Zimbabwe too. Further north there would have to be more 'unknown' categories like 'Unidentified Forester', but we'll cross that bridge when we come to it. Can we please have these added to the local lists for SA and Botswana?

Unidentified Blue Unidentified Browns and Ringlets Unidentified Copper, Opal or Russet Unidentified Hairstreak Unidentified Heliconian Unidentified Charaxinae Unidentified White, Yellow or Tip Unidentified Buff Unidentified Rocksitter or Zulu Unidentified Flat Skipper Unidentified Swift Unidentified Sandman Unidentified Ranger Unidentified Skipper

Thanks

stevewoodhall commented 1 month ago

The rationale is that users will be encouraged to identify butterflies to genus level if they can't identify to species or subspecies level. However, all the groups I've asked to be added as 'Unidentified' have more than one possible genus. My point is that it's better to have these 'complexes' than just having 'Unidentifiable Butterfly'.