Caelicola rostrata is missing kingdom, phylum, class, order, family in taxa export

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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.): the row for “Caelicola rostrata” (a moth) in taxa.csv is missing kingdom, phylum, class, order, family.

% head -n 1 taxa.csv                
id,taxonID,identifier,parentNameUsageID,kingdom,phylum,class,order,family,genus,specificEpithet,infraspecificEpithet,modified,scientificName,taxonRank,references
% grep "Caelicola rostrata" taxa.csv
1558845,https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1558845,https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1558845,https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1558846,,,,,,Caelicola,rostrata,,2024-07-01T16:15:44Z,Caelicola rostrata,species,http://www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/details/species/id/1134483

You can see this by unzipping https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/inaturalist-taxonomy.dwca.zip and then running the above commands. (I noticed it after importing the data into MySQL.)

This isn’t causing any problems for me, just thought you might like to know.

Thanks for the wonderful product (and for making these data available to developers)!

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i doubt there’s a bug here. the DWCA taxon file is generated only every once in a while. if you look in the taxa.csv component file, the last taxon in there is 1550926 created 2024-07-01T22:03:14Z. so probably the snapshot for the DWCA taxon file was taken just after this.

in the snapshot, Caelicola rostrata (1558845) is tied to genus Caelicola (1558846), but the genus taxon is not tied to a parent. if you look at the taxon setup in the live database, you can see a change was made to the genus on 2024-07-02, and it is now tied to a parent.

in other words, the next DWCA taxon snapshot will probably reflect the correct ancestry for Caelicola rostrata and Caelicola.