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Coleoptera - missing species Selonodon archboldi #241

Open jlegind opened 3 years ago

jlegind commented 3 years ago

A GBIF user pointed out that Selonodon archboldi records are interpreted to higher rank Genus : Selonodon Latreille, 1834 https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/1933533896

The next step was to look in CoL and here, I could not find Selonodon at all, neither by search https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/search?facet=rank&facet=issue&facet=status&facet=nomStatus&facet=nameType&facet=field&limit=50&offset=0&q=Selonodon&sortBy=taxonomic ..nor by browsing.

The user sent us this revision https://www.fdacs.gov/ezs3download/download/25105/516021/occasional-papers-vol-10.pdf which deals with the genus Selonodon. Perhaps this could help fill a bit of the Coleoptera gap in the taxonomy of CoL and by extension GBIF.

yroskov commented 3 years ago

Entire superfamily Elateroidea is a gap in the CoL (estimated over 24K spp). We are looking for an authoritative global checklist to fill this gap.

The paper by KRISTA E. M. GALLEY (1999) with 25 spp of genus Selonodon is acknowledged as valuable source. It would be nice, if an expert in the superfamily/family converts data into relational database or spreadsheet. Unfortunately, CoL has no resources to do it.

NB: additional efforts are required (1) to fill valid species authorstrings with years (names are presented in the checklist as S. speratus (Fall), or S. obscurus Galley, n.sp.); (2) to crawl combinations in synonymy correctly; (3) to crawl & interpret distribution data from the paper.

TonyRees commented 3 years ago

IRMNG has "all" (probably: most) of the accepted and unaccepted genera in Elateridae and related families, as per here: https://www.irmng.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=100180, but by no means all of the species, and what it does have it most likely got from Hallan's Biology Catalog in 2012, a source that apparently is not shareable directly. So CoL could get the accepted genera from IRMNG as a stopgap, I am guessing, but maybe that is not really good enough (most users would want species). Regards - Tony

DaveNicolson commented 3 years ago

This doesn't relate to the initial question, but rather to Yuri's comment that the whole of Elateroidea is a gap in COL. ITIS has GSDs for 3 families in this superfamily that should be used in COL if they are not already:

tsn | name | completeness_rtng | SppCount 113911 | Cerophytidae | complete | 21 113835 | Lampyridae | complete | 2250 113831 | Phengodidae | complete | 258

yroskov commented 3 years ago

ITIS Cerophytidae, Lampyridae, Phengodidae are in CoL (All ITIS sectors in CoL are here: https://github.com/CatalogueOfLife/testing/issues/8).

yroskov commented 3 years ago

I would be happy to take IRMNG classification down to genus rank for superfamilies in Coleoptera: Asiocoleoidea, Bostrichoidea, Byrrhoidea, Cantharoidea, Cleroidea, Coccinelloidea, Dascilloidea, Derodontoidea, Elateroidea, Haliploidea, Lymexyloidea, Scirtoidea, Sphaeriusoidea & Tenebrionoidea.

We just need a rank of superfamily included in a new IRMNG DwC-A export. (Old export has no superfamilies in Coleoptera https://data.catalogueoflife.org/catalogue/3/dataset/2007/classification?taxonKey=10279).

TonyRees commented 3 years ago

Hi Yuri, I have not used superfamiles in IRMNG to date, but could maybe insert them for the Coleoptera, if there is time between now and the next IRMNG release next month. I would also need to run this by Leen et al., not that I would imagine they would have any objection...

yroskov commented 3 years ago

Tony, it would be nice to get IRMNG with superfamilies. Coleopteran families are arranged in superfamilies in AC19 in a quite good state. I have checked this arrangement against Zhang's Animal Biodiversity. Unfortunately, if we need to re-use superfamilies from AC19 in the clearinghouse on the side of CoL, it will dramatically increase number of "sectors" - it is a "technical" barrier for us.