Odonata is missing a taxon. I discovered this when checking for taxon framework relationship of Odonata. For species taxa, there’s only 6355 framework. But WOL listed 6356 species. Any idea how to find it? I don’t want to brute force it, checking thousands of taxa is not an easy job.

i don’t think it’s that easy. first, i assume the 6356 WOL number comes from https://www2.pugetsound.edu/academics/academic-resources/slater-museum/biodiversity-resources/dragonflies/world-odonata-list2/ , but their download contains only 6345 species. (so already you’re starting off with only a par…

Is it related to this? https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/unknown-clade-in-yir-sunburst-diagram/28141

Keep in mind there are also deviations on iNat not on WOL. <a href="https://www.inaturalist.org/taxon_framework_relationships?utf8=%E2%9C%93&filters%5Bmatch%5D=0&filters%5Balternate_position%5D=0&filters%5Balternate_position%5D=1&filters%5Bone_to_one%5D=0&filters%5Bone_to_one%5D=1&filters%5Bmany_to_many%5D=0&filters%5Bmany_to_many%5D=1&filters%5Bmany_to_one%5D=0&filters%5Bmany_to_one%5D=1&filters%5Bone_to_many%5D=0&filters%5Bone_to_many%5D=1&filters%5Bnot_external%5D=0&filters%5Bnot_external%5D=1&filters%5Bnot_internal%5D=0&filters%5Bnot_internal%5D=1&filters%5Btaxon_framework_id%5D=6&filters%5Btaxon_name%5D=&filters%5Btaxon_id%5D=&filters%5Bexternal_taxon_name%5D=&filters%5Binternal_rank%5D=&filters%5Bexternal_rank%5D=&filters%5Buser_id%5D=&filters%5Bis_active%5D=" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow ugc">https://www.inaturalist.org/taxon_framework_relationships?utf8=✓&filters[match]=0&filters[alternate_position]=0&filters[alternate_position]=1&filters[one_to_one]=0&filters[one_to_one]=1&filters[many_to_many]=0&filters[many_to_many]=1&filter…

Woah, thank you for the data. I actually never think to search from the API, but i guess many unlisted features come from there. From the data that you’ve given, it’s clear for me that this taxon need many curation. And now i have a data to work with. Thank you again

No worry, they are mainly hybrids. Not considered species.

[image] pisum: (they just don’t get picked up as one of the 6355 Odonata species in iNat via the API for some reason.) so there might actually be at least 6355 + 730 = 7085 Odonata species in iNat sorry. i need to follow up on this a bit. this statement is actually wrong. i realized that my …

Yep, i did the fixing with the data you’ve given. Other than that, i figure out one synonymized taxon was present, so i merge it with the accepted taxa. And yes, the 11 taxa are the missing taxa on WOL list, they just didn’t updated it yet.

Efficient way to search for missing taxa

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