# What things are misidentified as large milkweed bug?

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**Created:** [May 20, 2020, 2:09am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/what-things-are-misidentified-as-large-milkweed-bug/12571 "2020-05-20T02:09:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![pisum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/91b2a8/32.png) [@pisum](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/pisum)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2020, 7:51pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/what-things-are-misidentified-as-large-milkweed-bug/12571/36 "2020-06-13T19:51:16Z")

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> [@cthawley](#):
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> A non-negligible chunk of observations are initially posted with a species ID, but are not definitely verifiable as a specific species. They are, however, often able to be ided at RG to the genus level ( _Anolis_ ). It would be cool to have the capability to include these in the viz if there’s an easy way to specify in the code.

it looks like the similar species endpoint only does comparisons at the same rank. so species would only compare to other species and genera to other genera. so you wouldn’t be able to use that particular endpoint to do genus to species.

however, this will identify cases where there is a species-level id on a genus-level research grade observation of Anolis: [http://api.inaturalist.org/v1/identifications?current\_taxon=false&rank=species&observation\_rank=genus&current=true&quality\_grade=research&taxon\_id=36362&observation\_taxon\_id=36362&order=desc&order\_by=created\_at](http://api.inaturalist.org/v1/identifications?current_taxon=false&rank=species&observation_rank=genus&current=true&quality_grade=research&taxon_id=36362&observation_taxon_id=36362&order=desc&order_by=created_at). so you can visualize or otherwise use those results as you like.

UPDATE: i made something (see [https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/search-and-filter-identifications/1304/23](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/search-and-filter-identifications/1304/23)) that might presents the results of the API identifications endpoint in a more human-friendly format. so if you just wanted to see a list of identifications – not charts and other visualizations – you could use it. for example: [https://jumear.github.io/stirfry/iNatAPIv1\_identifications.html?current\_taxon=false&rank=species&observation\_rank=genus&current=true&quality\_grade=research&taxon\_id=36362&observation\_taxon\_id=36362](https://jumear.github.io/stirfry/iNatAPIv1_identifications.html?current_taxon=false&rank=species&observation_rank=genus&current=true&quality_grade=research&taxon_id=36362&observation_taxon_id=36362).

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