It’s pretty preliminary, but I’m super excited about this figure! I’m using images of large milkweed bugs (Oncopeltus fasciatus) in an ecology research project, and our first step was to go through images to confirm IDs. We’ve processed 9,000+ images and we’ve found very few (<1%) of research-grad…

One of the common name of Caesalpinia pulcherrima is also “red bird of paradise”, which contributes also to the confusion with Erythrostemon gilliesii, competing with Strelitzia. But this may not be the exclusive explation, (1) Caesalpinia pulcherrima and Erythrostemon gilliesii are in the same trib…

You could check this one also against Cassia fistula: Goldenrain tree Koelreuteria paniculata Golden shower tree ; Golden rain tree Cassia fistula

[image] jeanphilippeb: You could check this one also against Cassia fistula you could run the script using the code and instructions above, or just look at the Similar Species tab of the Taxon page. it presents the same information, just in different format as alexis18’s figures.

Yes I can! And thank you for the tip! Other species commonly misidentified as Koelreuteria paniculata : [image] Besides other Koelreuteria species, Cassia fistula (same common name) is the most often misidentification.

Based on your explanations, this label in the “Similar Species” panel: (1) Other species commonly misidentified as this species should be instead: (2) Commonly misidentified as these other species [image] For instance, if we are in the Koelreuteria paniculata taxon page and we see Cassia fistu…

I think - based on the description - that the similar species are: Things originally identified as Koelreuteria paniculata that have been corrected to the listed identifications. That’s the way I integrated our misidentifications Though it would be very interesting to see the alternative

[image] jeanphilippeb: For instance, if we are in the Koelreuteria paniculata taxon page and we see Cassia fistula in the “Similar Species” panel, it means that some actual Koelreuteria paniculata have been misidentified as Cassia fistula [image] alexis18: I think - based on the descripti…

a tangent, but your use of a Sankey diagram here inspired me to add one to something i created back in the day: https://jumear.github.io/stirfry/iNat_obs_counts_by_iconic_taxa.html . (i think it’s interesting to see how the diagram changes when run by different users.)

Interesting that such a large proportion of unknowns go to Casual and not to Needs ID.

What things are misidentified as large milkweed bug?

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