Country species list not including those in subdivisions

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Platform (Android, iOS, Website): Website

App version number, if a mobile app issue (shown under Settings or About): NA

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

URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages:

Petén department Piper species list: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?nelat=17.81569703663221&nelng=-89.15143937933635&place_id=any&swlat=15.84550016303638&swlng=-91.43907493834539&taxon_id=83584&view=species

Guatemala country Piper species list: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=6940&taxon_id=83584&view=species

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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.):

Step 1: Search for genus Piper in Petén, Guatemala. (One of the country’s administrative districts.) Notice 8 species, including Piper amalago.

Step 2: Search for genus Piper in Guatemala, the country. Notice 8 species, not including Piper amalago.

Step 3: If the species is present in the department of Petén, it should be listed for the country as a whole. This also makes me wonder how many other species are listed for the different departments within Guatemala that don’t show up for the country as a whole.

This is because the two observations of P. amalago are actually in Mexico:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/1359994
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/46096602
not in Guatemala.

It looks like the first search link you provided for Peten department is just a bounding box search which includes a fair amount of area in Mexico and is not restricted to Guatemala.

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I see! Thank you! I also see that certain of the country’s departments, like Escuintla and Huehuetenango, have properly delineated borders, while many others don’t - they have a square area like Petén does. Is there any way for me to fix this myself?

Create a new place and provide a KML file of the boundary.

Ok, I have no idea what that is or how to do it. :/
Thanks, though!

There’re many topics on the forum about it, you can find them if you search “create new place”.

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see https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/country-boundaries-are-different-on-browser-versus-android/27607/2.

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