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Emesis ares and Lycaena arota were both pulled as being in the family “Sesiidae”, genus “Sesia” – Sesiidae is a distantly related moth family #37

Open jhnwllr opened 8 months ago

jhnwllr commented 8 months ago

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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 This is not an issue of outdated taxonomy – Sesiidae is a distantly related moth family.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.

gbifID taxonID
2466542110 5132084
2466530533 5714326
2466495972 5132084
2466485129 5128250
2466485310 5128250
2466497381 1918959
2466487978 1918959
2466486497 1918959
2466486651 1918959
2466494479 1918959
2466496191 1918959
2466495760 1918959
jhnwllr commented 4 months ago

// json for auto-checking [ { "name": "Emesis ares (W.H.Edwards, 1882)", "wrongGroup": "Sesiidae", "rightGroup": null }, { "name": "Lycaena arota (Boisduval, 1852)", "wrongGroup": "Sesiidae", "rightGroup": null } ]