Interesting. Where are you getting these stats from? (The 30.36% for example)
Is there a page I’ve not seen or…?
I can see top species listings at least …
And if I go to Diptera (where I’m active), I see some of the top ones globally…
Lucilia sericata has 8048 observations.
My guess, purely based on the UK observations I monitor - about 8000 of those should be at genus level or are incorrect.
Calliphora vicina and Clogmia albipunctata both have 3800 observations.
My guess, purely based on the UK observations I monitor - about 3500 of these should be at genus level or are incorrect.
The top ten in Diptera are actually more like the top ten worst offenders, and the least accurate of all the species level identifications as %s go, due to AI oversuggest and blind agreement from those who know no better perpetuating the issue.
As noted on the parallel thread… placing birds alongside insects can be very misleading and is not comparing like with like. In UK, we have 620 species of bird but 27000 species of insect. We also have many many more active identifiers in birds than insects.