Taxonomic Swap 17172 (Committed on 2016-10-06)

Automatically generated change from http://www.inaturalist.org/taxon_changes/17154

A Catalogue of the Butterflies of the... (Citation)
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Added by d_kluza on October 6, 2016 07:39 PM
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should be just the opposite

Posted by elizatorres over 6 years ago

At the time of this swap, the butterfly taxonomy used by iNaturalist did not recognize genus Heraclides. As you point out, the situation has now reversed.

Posted by d_kluza over 6 years ago

@d_kluza
So can you change it back then? This is causing observations to not be recognized as Research Grade, when they should be. Thanks!

Posted by magazhu about 6 years ago

@magazhu
It looks like I was incorrect about the situation reversing. For North American butterflies, iNaturalist follows the taxonomy of A Catalogue of the Butterflies of the United States and Canada, which regards Heraclides as a subgenus. What's confusing is that the rest of the Butterflies of America website treats Heraclides as a genus, so the nomenclature that appears in the individual species & subspecies galleries doesn't actually correspond with the Catalogue classifications.

The short answer -- at present, to remain consistent with A Catalogue of the Butterflies of the United States and Canada, the genus should remain as Papilio.

Posted by d_kluza about 6 years ago

@d_kluza
Could you please take a look at this? https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/873111
No matter how we put it, it still won't accept a Research Grade... :(
Thanks!

Posted by magazhu about 6 years ago

@magazhu
Heraclides rogeri ssp. pharnaces was swapped with Papilio rogeri ssp. pharnaces, which should have then rendered H. r. pharnaces inactive. For whatever reason, H. r. pharnaces remained active, which meant that there were two taxonomic concepts in use for the same organism (i.e., a Papilio Pink-spotted Swallowtail and a Heraclides Pink-spotted Swallowtail). Both concepts were being used in the observation you mentioned above, hence it wasn't reaching Research Grade. I've manually set H. r. pharnaces to inactive, which seems to have resolved the problem. Thanks for bringing this issue to my attention!

Posted by d_kluza about 6 years ago

@d_kluza
Thank you for solving it!! ... big smile...
Many regards!

Posted by magazhu almost 6 years ago

Thank you!

Posted by elizatorres almost 6 years ago

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