Darwin and Wallace on iNat

[david99]

As someone that occasionally finds an identifiable species that’s not in the iNat taxonomy, it’s always been a case where I’ve put in some effort to track down an old paper for a taxa that I have little to no personal experience identifying, and manage to stumble my way through the key (or more like, get lucky and match the photo to an unusually helpful figure that doesn’t just show tiny variations in some internal or microscopic structure). So I ask for the species to be added, then make my ID with a qualifier that I have no expertise with this taxa, and anyone wishing to confirm it should check the paper and see if I actually correctly used the key. If any credit is due, it’s to the author of the paper that helpfully included hand drawn figures of the distinctive patterns on the enlarged tibia of males of an infrequently photographed species.