I identified one of my photos as a [Texas Grass Tubeworm Moth] [Acrolophus texanella]. Since then, someone has come along and identified it as a weevil (Cleonis pigra), and someone else has identified it simply as Lepidoptera. This is causing it to be finally identified as “Winged and Once-winged …

I’m fairly sure this is a mistake. The identifier who added the weevil ID is the top identifier of Texas Grass Tubeworm Moth so presumably knows the difference between a moth & a weevil!

You can always make a duplicate of the observation and delete the original. This will restart the ID process.

Just tag identifiers for the needed taxa, asking them for help, and they’ll help you.

based on how the community ID works I think removing then re-adding the ID might fix the issue.

I commented on the observation, but I will put it here so people don’t have to click through. I would bet misclick. Looks like a misclick where he meant to add the ID for the moth A. piger. Type in piger in ID box and A. piger and the weevil are the first two options. The weevil used to be C. piger…

yeah i think it’s valuable to keep in mind, that unless you have evidence otherwise, it’s good to at least start out assuming it was an honest mistake. That sure seems the case here. And, even if they don’t respond, it will get corrected over time. Generally it’s not best practice to call out specif…

I’ve accidentally done something like this in the past where the same genus is used for both a plant and a vertebrate, and I just absent-mindedly clicked the wrong one.

This really does happen a lot. I’ve often thought that there must be a way to change how iNaturalist works so mistakes like these jump out at the identifier at the time, especially where the mis-identification causes a change in Kingdom. That would be a different topic, I know, so I won’t take that …

As I wrote in my post, I was fairly confident that it was an unintentional mistake, but now several others have jumped on, and identified it as simply Lepidoptera, which doesn’t get me any closer to an actual correct ID (to species if possible). One person suggest that I turn off community ID, but I…

I did say that in my post, but intentional or not, the result is the same, and that is what I was trying to address . . . what happened, not so much why.

What to do when someone accidentally adds an incorrect ID?

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