In my project, 9 Rhytidoponera have been seen (https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&project_id=48902&subview=grid&taxon_id=194072&verifiable=any).
But it doesn’t even appear on the species view (https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&project_id=48902&subview=grid&verifiable=any&view=species).
The “species” tab of the current Explore page shows “leaves”, i.e. the tips of the taxonomic tree. Since there is one observation of a Rhytidoponera species, it shows that species “leaf” instead of the branch the leaf is on (genus).
There’s a more detailed description here:
https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/how_inaturalist_counts_taxa
Perfect, makes sense. The problem was the genus was appearing a few hours before this, but obviously that one at species hadn’t been ID’ed yet.