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Platform (Android, iOS, Website): Android
App version number, if a mobile app issue (shown under Settings or About): N/A
Browser, if a website issue (Firefox, Chrome, etc) : Chrome
URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages: N/A
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Description of problem (please provide a set of steps we can use to replicate the issue, and make as many as you need.):
Step 1 : I think this is a really uncommon bug that only happens when pages occasionally don’t load properly. I filtered for the lepidopteran genus Maliattha on the Observations page, and further added a location filter for ‘Kerala, India’ on the location bar to the right.
Step 2: Contrary to normal, the page failed to display the number of filtered observations or number of species on the labels above (these fields had dashes; ––), but all the observation photos loaded well, and quickly enough.
There were approx. five filtered species. Funnily, every photo had the correct taxon name at the bottom except those belonging to the taxon ‘Maliattha separata’. These were all labelled ‘Maliattha offprint’. There was no difference in font, etc. If someone saw the page, they would readily believe that a taxon ‘Maliattha offprint’ existed, or that ‘M. separata’ had been taxonomically revised.
Step 3: On clicking on a photo to open it in its observation page, the bug resolved itself and displayed ‘Maliattha separata’ correctly. On going back to the filtered observations by clicking ‘Back’, the bug had resolved itself on that page too.
Summary: Not a major bug, but one to look out for nevertheless. This is the first time I’ve seen something like this in five years of using this site.