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Thanks for pointing this out. It looks like there is a family of primarily (perhaps entirely?) extinct insects called Personidae which we are pulling in from GBIF (see links https://tree.opentreeoflife.org/taxonomy/browse?id=6293460 ). I have not looked, but I suspect that is not a valid name. We do have the mollusc family Personidae (see https://tree.opentreeoflife.org/taxonomy/browse?id=762727). GBIF puts some of the molluscs in that family and our taxonomy merger did not notice that there cannot be 2 families called "Personidae" in animals.
Here is the PBDB/fossilworks record for the fossil insect family, Personidae Novokshonov, 1995: http://fossilworks.org/bridge.pl?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=218334 (I did not have this in IRMNG, but will add it). The name must be invalid, since its type genus (Persona Novokshonov, 1995) is a junior homonym of Persona Montfort, 1810 (accepted as Distorsio Röding, 1798) in the correct (accepted) family Personidae Gray, 1854 in Mollusca.
will be mostly fixed by https://github.com/OpenTreeOfLife/edOTTs/commit/a30e3c09781803973a6e914013ae9675961b2576 (though leaving in the single fossil species that @TonyRees notes must be an invalid name, because I can't find the correct name. But that species won't be displayed in the tree because it is extinct, and the other members of Personidae were moved by that edOTT into Mollusca)
The mollusk family Personidae is incorrectly listed as being a part of the insect family Grylloblattodea.