I was just trying to make sense of the map view for Macrosaccus robiniella. I understand (I think) that green = “research grade” and orange = not research grade, but what’s up with the states that are colored in orange but have no observations for this species? And why is there no orange coloring in Mexico even though there is an observation there? I thought to look at the map legend, but as you can see, it doesn’t address these questions.
If I remember correctly, those orange areas with no observations are places that have the taxon listed in one of their checklists as “present”, but is not recorded in the form of observations. (As an example, California’s checklist lists M. robiniella as recorded in California https://www.inaturalist.org/places/california-us#q=Macrosaccus%2Brobinella, so even though there are no observations of it in California, it will show up on the Map as an Orange coloration)
EDIT: For clarification, I’m pretty sure a lot of checklists are created or atleast partially maintained by iNaturalist users (I don’t know if any are imported from external sources or not). You can also click on an entry to see who added, or edited, a checklist entry.
That observation is needs ID, in a location that doesn’t have any other observations, and that doesn’t have it recorded in the Mexican Checklist (https://www.inaturalist.org/places/mexico#q=Macrosaccus%2Brobinella)
I think that the observation needs to be research grade, or another observation(s) need to be created for it to finally show up on the map
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for more insight, see: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/what-determines-if-an-area-in-the-map-section-of-a-species-page-is-orange-or-green/47562
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