In accessing and using some of the data for butterfly occurrences on GBIF, we ran into 2 issues that I think should be brought to the attention of the relevant data manager. Please forward this to the appropriate party if you are able to:
A few butterfly species are taxonomically misplaced. Emesis ares and Lycaena arota were both pulled as being in the family “Sesiidae”, genus “Sesia”. This is not an issue of outdated taxonomy – Sesiidae is a distantly related moth family.
Several occurrences have Yukon or Yukon Territory listed as the locality, but they are incorrectly georeferenced and the coordinates place them in eastern Canada. The list of problematic records is attached.
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In accessing and using some of the data for butterfly occurrences on GBIF, we ran into 2 issues that I think should be brought to the attention of the relevant data manager. Please forward this to the appropriate party if you are able to:
A few butterfly species are taxonomically misplaced. Emesis ares and Lycaena arota were both pulled as being in the family “Sesiidae”, genus “Sesia”. This is not an issue of outdated taxonomy – Sesiidae is a distantly related moth family. Several occurrences have Yukon or Yukon Territory listed as the locality, but they are incorrectly georeferenced and the coordinates place them in eastern Canada. The list of problematic records is attached.