suspicious (non-) resolving of GBIF synonym Baeria https://www.gbif.org/species/6064919

[jhpoelen]

usage of ambiguous name Baeria was correctly made explicit by @seltmann et al. via https://www.gbif.org/species/6064919 in https://github.com/Extended-Bee-Network/bee-interaction-database . However, for some reason, GloBI resolve the name to a sponge genus Leuconia via a homonym synonym relation see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baeria .

1523    LiteratureRecord    https://www.gbif.org/species/1357106    Andrena angustella      Andrenidae                      http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002622       Collected on    Flowers http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PO_0009046   in nature   http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01001226    https://www.gbif.org/species/6064919    Baeria Chrysostoma      Asteraceae              United States                                                           LaBerge, Wallace E. “A Revision of the Bees of the Genus Andrena of the Western Hemisphere. Part XI. Minor Subgenera and Subgeneric Key.” Transactions of the American Entomological Society (1890-), vol. 111, no. 4, 1985, pp. 441–567. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/25078376. Journal Article TRUE    Kristi Liu          

found by refuted interaction data provided by EOL via @katjaschulz et al.

EOLrefute_globi:assoc:2035456-https://www.gbif.org/species/1357842-VISITS_FLOWERS_OF-GBIF:2237018   https://en.wiktionary.org/
wiki/refute refute  EOL-GloBI-validation7   Records of organisms other than plants having flower visitors are probably errorshttp://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002623  has flowers visited by  Seltmann, Katja C. 2020. Biotic species interactions about
 bees (Anthophila) manually extracted from literature.. Accessed at <https://github.com/Extended-Bee-Network/bee-interaction-datab
ase/archive/7aadc58b8ee258e2faa4488e0b9ffb0340563684.zip> on 10 Aug 2020.   Biotic interaction data that failed Encyclopedia o
f Life data validation  https://github.com/globalbioticinteractions/refuted-biotic-interactions-by-eol/blob/master/interactions.ts
v   https://www.gbif.org/species/1357842    Andrena buccata     Animalia    GBIF:2237018    Leuconia    genus   An
imalia

[jhpoelen]

Note that nomer is able to resolve the GBIF synonym via:

echo -e "https://www.gbif.org/species/6064919\tBaeria" | nomer append globi-enrich 
using matcher [globi-enrich]
https://www.gbif.org/species/6064919    Baeria  SAME_AS GBIF:7222188    Lasthenia californica californica   subspecies      Plantae | Tracheophyta | Magnoliopsida | Asterales | Asteraceae | Lasthenia | Lasthenia californica GBIF:6 | GBIF:7707728 | GBIF:220 | GBIF:414 | GBIF:3065 | GBIF:3144225 | GBIF:3144260   kingdom | phylum | class | order | family | genus | species http://www.gbif.org/species/7222188 

[jhpoelen]

It appears that the additions of the records in Extended Bee Network were made after the last update of the GloBI taxon graph (i.e. https://zenodo.org/record/3905244). In order words, the taxon ids were not yet resolved using nomer.

Suggested fix - publish a new version of the GloBI taxon graph to resolve the synonyms to their valid counter parts using nomer.

[jhpoelen]

After upgrading to the last taxon graph v0.3.25 . The provided taxon GBIF id is associated with Lasthenia californica subsp. californica http://www.gbif.org/species/7222188 the (currently) accepted name of Baera Baeria chrysostoma https://www.gbif.org/species/6064919 according to the GBIF backbone taxonomy.

Note however, that other related name resolving issues remain: due to uncharacteristic capitalization of Baeria chrysostoma (i.e. Baeria Chrysostoma) related name resolving tools interpret the specific epithet as an author and consider only Baeria, a name with known homonyms.