There appears to be an identical Genus name for a plant and an insect taxon in iNat… the Plant one seems valid according to POWO . Plant: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/185244-Phoebe Insect: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/185074-Phoebe Need to remove/swap out the insect one?

Let’s not forget taxons higher than genus that seem to be able to be the same even within Animalia.

[image] marina_gorbunova: taxons higher than genus that seem to be able to be the same even within Animalia. Do you mean things that are the same except for the ending? Pelecaniformes Pelecani Pelecanidae Pelecanus As far as I know only genus, species, and subspecies can me exactly the s…

Last one I saw was a tribe or subfamily of insects and another group, but I forgot to write it down and of course can’t remember it now!

In the 18th, 19th, and most of the 20th centrury, it was. Taxonomists didn’t have every paper, and therefore were only checking the relevant papers and books to make sure the name wasn’t used, and that the species wasn’t already described under a different name.

Yes. We tend to forget how difficult it could be to find information before computers and search engines. When was the last time any of us went to a university library to research some topic in paper journals? I certainly spent a lot of time doing that a mere 30 years ago.

I think your solution is to just add a parenthetical note. I requested to have this done for Opercularia and the solution has almost completely eliminated accidental miscategorizations of the genus. [image] I am not the curator, but I believe the implementation was simply to add a common name to…

Pretty much how Wikipedia does it.

That appears to be a typo in iNat. The frog should be Acrisinae.

Same Genus name for an insect and a plant--Phoebe

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That was precisely the inspiration, yes! It works well there, it works well here.

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