I tried to search for a similar topic, but did not find any. What are taxa you ID and maybe even find rather easy, but that people often get wrong? Either taxa that seem to be placeholders for anything else or the other way around taxa that are often identified as something else? And what are the t…

I wouldn’t say typically but the two trailing cranberry species (or three if you lump in lingonberry) in the northeastern US are often misidentified. V. macrocarpon is often misidentified as oxycoccos, which is usually restricted to areas of expansive sphagnum. The three are usually pretty easy to t…

[image] martin_sedlak: in Inat, roughly 2/3 of the findings were wrongly identified (trying to solve it, but it´s more then 2000 items) Welcome to the forum, keep at it bud!

[image] DianaStuder: Found 2 plants masquerading as spiders Thanks a lot for mentioning. No more spiders are proposed by the c.v., so I guess that I downloaded worse c.v. suggestions a year ago. (I still have all the data but I won’t check the details. By now, this is not a big issue).

Usnea longissima. Usnea is a world-wide genus of epiphytic lichens, most species with such overlapping morphologies that species identification is impossible without chemical tests. You can probably count on the fingers of one hand the readily identifiable Usnea species. One of these is Usnea lon…

[image] sedgequeen: Usnea longissima. Usnea is a world-wide genus of epiphytic lichens Oh true, I see a lot of Usnea ID’d to species that shouldn’t be there. And it likes to suggest an Usnea sp. that doesn’t exist here; but anyone using seek or the ap in particular tend to put it to that spec…

[image] sedgequeen: applies the name U. longissima to multiple Usnea species and sometimes Spanish Moss, I’ve also seen it the other way around: Usnea misidentified as Spanish moss.

I have seen Manduca sexta (Carolina Sphinx) be missidetified as Manduca quinquemaculatus (Five-Spotted Hawk Moth) quite a bit both as larvae and adults. Sometimes, I see the adult Hyles livornica (Striped Hawkmoth) be missidentified as Hyles lineata (White-lined Sphinx) in the US and H. livornica do…

Ah, yes. Sawfly larvae. I gave up trying to figure out whether a caterpillar is a lepidopteran or a sawfly. I hope the identifiers of lepidoptera get a little jolt of superiority when correcting the ones that are really sawflies.

They’re very easy to separate, true caterpillars have up to 5 pairs of prolegs, sawfly larvae can have none or 6+, caterpillars have head capsule with impression going through it, sawfly heads are smooth and rounded on top, their bodies are very wrinkly, much more than caterpillar body, then they ha…

Thanks! We’ll see if I remember this.

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jasonhernandez74 December 27, 2022, 11:45pm 40

I’ve also seen it the other way around: Usnea misidentified as Spanish moss.

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