Hylesinus varius records include a lot of Corticaria spp.

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Hylesinus varius records include a lot of Corticaria spp.

The Hylesinus varius records include several Corticaria species, incorrectly labeled as synonyms of Hylesinus varius. Corticaria is in the Latridiidae, Hylesinus in the Scolytidae. Please correct, because on first glance it looked like Hylesinus varius is found in North America, which it is not (see: Alonso-Zarazaga, M.A., Barrios, H., Borovec, R., Caldara, R., Colonnelli, E., Gültekin, L., Hlaváč, P., Korotyaev, B., Lyal, C.H.C., Machado, A., Meregalli, M., Pierotti, H., Ren, L., Sánchez-Ruiz, M., Sforzi, A., Silfverberg, H., Skuhrovec, J., Trýzna, M., Velázquez de Castro, A.J., and Yunakov, N.N. 2023. Cooperative catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera Curculionoidea second edition.Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa (S.E.A.), Zaragoza, Spain. 780pp.)

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[damus-md]

Further comments to help identify the issue:

The BIN cluster BOLD:ACD4236 represents a completely different family (Latridiidae: Corticarina minuta). Checking the BOLD Sample ID numbers of a few of these “Hylesinus varius” specimen records on GBIF, verify that they all match C. minuta records on BOLD. If you look at the taxon data fields, you will see that they were originally mined/submitted from BOLD to GBIF as Corticarina and have been subsequently altered to Hylesinus varius on GBIF. Sounds like a data curation operation gone wrong.

[DianRHR]

This problem does not occur in the xrelease, where Hylesinus varius doesn't include any species of Corticaria as synonym.

Corticaria is an accepted genus of Latridiidae and several Corticaria species are synonyms of Corticarina species . Regarding to the cluster BOLD:ACD4236 it is related to Corticarina minuta, and has no relation to Hylesinus varius.