There are 575 cicada observations for North America that are incorrectly IDed as “Genus Cicada,” a genus that does not occur in North America. Making things even worse, some of these IDs are naively confirmed by others and some of those people have become inactive. This makes it difficult to get an…

Like any ID on iNat, it relies on the community ID algorithm. No one’s ID has more weight than anyone else’s on iNat.

Yep, we could organize some users to go through them and move them up. What taxonomic level would they be best to go to for someone who doesn’t know enough to get to genus, family Cicadidae? Unfortunately getting things to research grade requires experience with the actual species involved, so that…

It seems that has already happened. There are no longer any observations of Genus Cicada anywhere i the Western Hemisphere. This won’t prevent future misidentification, but it seems @dan_johnson bringing attention to the problem has lead to a solution for those 575 observations.

Dan might be referring to observations that have been tagged at genus Cicada and are thus stuck out at family or superfamily level? I periodically look at the ones with community ID of genus Cicada and I haven’t seen any stuck with a community ID of Cicada for a bit. I know there is a way to search…

North American observations that contain an active ID for Cicada, do not have a community ID in the Cicada genus, and have a quality grade of “Needs ID”: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?ident_taxon_id=205175&place_id=97394&quality_grade=needs_id&without_taxon_id=205175

After research came out, a small group rounded up the North American Euphorbia esula observations and got them changed to Euphorbia virgata. We had to do this rather than taxon split because esula is still valid globally, and there are some limited occurrences in North America, but nearly all North …

I would beware of introducing any mechanism that prevents IDs of a certain group being made because that group ‘does not occur in ABC place’. This can create a vicious cycle where, if a genuine observation were to be made, it might not be identified correctly. Many weeds would fall under this categ…

Just for fun here’s an example of what we have to deal with: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/3828479 . We have an observation with a good photo, but we have “Genus Cicada” double confirmed. All identifiers of this taxon have long since departed inaturalist. So am I supposed to somehow ro…

I did a quick spot check of some of the 500 odd records in the link above. While I did not check all, everyone I checked the genus Cicada ID was not done by the computer vision. What is likely happening here is users know it is a cicada, type that in and then see the genus in the drop down and choo…

"Genus Cicada" does not occur in North America

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deboas July 14, 2020, 9:44pm 4

This seems not necessarily due to computer vision errors, but you could add this genus to the wiki here to call in some help: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/computer-vision-clean-up-wiki/7281

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"Genus Cicada" does not occur in North America

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