Platform : Website URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/69520399 This first time I saw this I thought it’s a random bug, but a second occurrence points to a consistent issue (sadly I don’t remember which observation was the firs…

It’s working as intended, it’s not a bug. There’re several similar topics, you can look them up.

ID straight to subspecies doesn't improve existing ID to family/subfamily or similar

fffffffff February 16, 2021, 5:41pm 4

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