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Cerambycidae subtaxa not listed on taxon page #24

Open lauren-a opened 5 years ago

lauren-a commented 5 years ago

Hi,

I've been looking up longhorn beetle fossils (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) and found that when I search for 'Cerambycidae' the taxon page only lists one subfamily (Spondylinae), not the other seven! https://paleobiodb.org/classic/basicTaxonInfo?taxon_no=69413

Also, the taxon pages for Cerambycinae and Prioninae do not have any subtaxa listed (which the other subfamilies e.g. Lamiinae do) - the only way I could get to the cerambycine fossils was to search by genus, which is not ideal when you don't know what genera to look for.

markuhen commented 4 years ago

This is a more general problem. Sometimes the Taxon Info page is extremely depauperate, and it is not clear why.

pnovack-gottshall commented 1 year ago

This appears to be a result of a complex history of synonymizations which sometimes sets a child to a parent of the same name. If you search for Superfamily Chrysomeloidea, you can see its taxonomic subgroups in the "Included Taxa" tab. But if you search for family Cerambycidae, it gets redirected to its (currently considered) synonym Cerambicini , which is also considered a senior synonym of Spondylidinae.

The reason that child genera are not showing appears to be a separate issue. The genera are parented to "tribes" within family Cerambycidae, but apparently that rank isn't being visualized in the Taxon Info page (as Mark noted).

The good news is that everything is correct if you pull from the Download page: https://paleobiodb.org/data1.2/taxa/list.csv?datainfo&rowcount&base_name=Cerambycidae&rank=min_genus&taxon_status=accepted