Duplicated taxa (Aves), point to wrong parent

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I found 2 problems involving 4 species of birds in gbif. The taxa involved are:

Luscinia calliope, Luscinia obscura, Luscinia pectoralis, and Luscinia 
pectardens.

Those names are correct, and point to the correct parent (family Muscicapidae). 

The first problem is that these taxa are duplicated as:

Calliope calliope, Calliope obscura, Calliope pectoralis, and Calliope 
pectardens.

The second problem is that the genus Calliope points to the class Aves as the 
parent.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by phylo....@gmail.com on 15 Aug 2013 at 8:29

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The duplication has been nicely reported by Rod Page too recently: 
http://iphylo.blogspot.de/2013/08/cluster-maps-papaya-plots-and-trouble.html

I will try to find ways to identify that these are recombined names, any ideas 
welcome

Original comment by wixner@gmail.com on 16 Aug 2013 at 1:07

• Changed state: Accepted

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Calliope calliope comes from the Clemens checklist. Removing it from the 
sources for the backbone might already clean things up quite a bit.
http://uat.gbif.org/species/6090081

Original comment by wixner@gmail.com on 16 Aug 2013 at 1:11

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I think this points to a more general problem: if the parent of a taxon is 
several ranks higher than the taxon itself (e.g. genus pointing to class as a 
parent), then this should be flagged as a problem.

Original comment by phylo....@gmail.com on 16 Aug 2013 at 4:50

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It is not nice I agree, but it often is a correct thing cause we don't have a 
full higher classification using the catalogue of life for many groups. I am 
not so much worried about this than the fact that we have lots of 
recombinations and their predecessors in there all being accepted

Original comment by wixner@gmail.com on 16 Aug 2013 at 7:11