How is a slime mold an Insect? Is this a bug?

I know slime molds aren’t fungi… but insects?

https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/56262-Arcyria-denudata

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Because the genus name is repeated across an insect and slime mould genera, and when taxa are created using one of the auto import tools it does not always pick the right one.

I’ve fixed this, but as an FYI, it is better if you find issues on taxa like this to use the flag for curation option on the taxa page and describe the problem there. That means all curators can see the flag, while only a relatively small percentage of the curating staff are active on the forum here.

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