Some tree cricket observations appear in multiple places in the taxonomy

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Description of problem: Tree Crickets (subfamily Oecanthinae) used to be a part of family Gryllidae before they were transferred to an expanded concept of family Oecanthidae. The taxonomy was updated on inat years ago, but some observations of Oecanthinae continue to appear in family Gryllidae. The screen shot above is a search for family Gryllidae in a one province of Costa Rica (Guanacaste). You can see that one observation of subfamily Oecanthinae is in there, even though Oecanthinae is not a Gryllidae. If you go to that one observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/125616039), there seems to be nothing special about it and it looks like its taxonomy is mapped correctly. In fact, if you just click on that ‘one observation’ it opens all the Oecanthinae from that province (61 observations, not 1). I used Guanacaste as an example here, but this isn’t a unique case and if you search Gryllidae for many jurisdictions there are a limited number of Oecanthinae that wrongly appear. As another example, there there are 25 observations of Oecanthinae that appear in Gryllidae of USA, even though there are more than 42,000 observations of Oecanthinae in USA that don’t appear in a search for Gryllidae. What’s happening here?

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Seems like an indexing bug. I voted on the DQA for that observation, and it’s now gone from the Gryllidae search.

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Yes, probably an indexing bug. Can you please share the URL of your search? Specifics like URLs are really helpful when investigating issues.

The problem appears if you search Gryllidae for many countries/states/provinces. If you sort by species there are often a few Oecanthinae in there. Here’s a search for USA with 25 misplaced Oecanthinae:

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=1&taxon_id=52884&view=species

Mexico with 21:

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=6793&taxon_id=52884&view=species

Colombia with 1:

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=7196&taxon_id=52884&view=species

The DQA approach above fixed that particular observation, but the question is how some of them wind up indexed to both families. Also it’s hard to find the misplaced observations because if you click on Oecanthinae observations in any of the above searches, it will lead to all the observations from that location, not just the ones that are cross-indexed to Gryllidae.