Annotation life stage pupa not available for Aleurodicinae

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Platform (Android, iOS, Website): Website

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Browser, if a website issue (Firefox, Chrome, etc) : Chrome

URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/255403054#activity_identification_10771bb1-5405-424c-aadd-effce445c937

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Description of problem (please provide a set of steps we can use to replicate the issue, and make as many as you need.): Tried to annotate the above observation with life stage = pupa, but that stage is not available in Subfamily Aleurodicinae

Step 1: Open observation: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/255403054#activity_identification_10771bb1-5405-424c-aadd-effce445c937

Step 2: Scroll down to Annotation attribute: Life Stage

Step 3: Select drop down and see only Adult / Egg / Nymph options

I would guess that this is because only a smaller proportion of Hemipterans undergo complete metamorphosis. iNat does restrict the annotations available by taxon, so I would guess that Hemiptera only have egg/nymph/adult options. The level of taxonomic detail at which annotations are available varies, so I don’t know it in this particular case. Also, I think only the males have pupae? So maybe this option just isn’t available for simplicity. You could post about it in the open Annotations thread: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/lets-talk-annotations/627

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OK, thank you

These are the taxa that have larva available as an annotation option (from https://help.inaturalist.org/en/support/solutions/articles/151000191830-what-are-the-definitions-of-inaturalist-annotations-)

Coleoptera, Neuroptera, Mecoptera, Lepidoptera, Diptera, Hymenoptera, Trichoptera, Megaloptera, Siphonaptera, Strepsiptera, Raphidioptera)

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Thank you.

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