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Some Bombus species have family Apidae as their parent taxon instead of their genus/subgenus, e.g., Bombus bimaculatus #5198

Closed bdagley closed 4 months ago

bdagley commented 4 months ago

Species such as Bombus bimaculatus are members of genus Bombus (and within Bombus, the species is a member of subgenus Pyrobombus, but there's currently a separately documented issue where subgenera including Pyrobombus are incorrectly being categorized as genera), but bimaculatus isn't listed in the list of species for genus Bombus. Instead, the species has it's family, Apidae, as the parent taxon (https://www.gbif.org/species/1340382). I only checked this issue for this species but this probably is true of multiple Bombus species.

bdagley commented 4 months ago

I currently assume this may be a COL and/or GBIF issue, but please indicate in the event that iNaturalist could be involved.

CecSve commented 4 months ago

Hi @bdagley - I may have misunderstood your feedback, but I am not able to reproduce the issue. As I understand it, your feedback is that Bombus bimaculatus is not registered as a species within the genus Bombus, correct? I can find the species under the genus and the species page also shows the genus for the species.

bdagley commented 4 months ago

Thanks @CecSve, you're correct.