I am working through the Donaciinae leaf beetles of North America, as they were my doctoral critters and I’ve done the taxonomic revisions of the genera. Many observations were ID’d as Palaearctic species and all are corrected to the extent possible. At least, all those so ID’d have been changed ba…

On the one hand, it also works in the opposite direction. Yes, I too am sometimes a bit annoyed by the need to correct obviously incorrect identifications of European observations as belonging to Nearctic species. On the other hand, entries from the Palaearctic to the Nearctic and back again are so …

It would be helpful if you could provide links to some observations where you’ve seen this happen.

For example: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/195669649 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/195669009 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/194728305 (Parthenicus is an American genus, absent in Europe)

The problem with the last one is the CV refuses to suggest Phytocoris! 10,000 observations of the genus on iNat (~1,000 are RG) and it always shows me Parthenicus, even for a centered, cropped photo on a white or neutral background. For example: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/182479995 (CV…

So it’s been 5 weeks since I posed this question. All Nearctic observations have been reviewed if ID as Palaearctic taxa, and have been correct to species if possible, or back to genus for later review. Most of the ID to species I’ve done were then agreed to by the observer, and the right Nearctic…

How long does it take for the geomodel to update the “expected nearby” suggestions? For quite some time the CV has been suggesting the North American species complex Lasioglossum gemmatum as “expected nearby” for bee observations in Europe. I believe the initial cause was a mis-ID’d observation in …

[image] spiphany: How long does it take for the geomodel to update the “expected nearby” suggestions? It’s part of the CV model release every month.

OK, so what needs to happen so that it stops suggesting a North American species complex as “expected nearby” in Europe? There were one or two European research grade observations of a species in this complex (Lasioglossum tegulare; misclick by an expert subsequently agreed to by the observer) whic…

I’m having the same problem with the donaciine beetles in North America. I began doing identifications in this subfamily early this year and found that only European species were coming up. I had started a post on this subject back then. Replies suggested it just takes time for the CV to unlearn …

Why getting Palaearctic species suggestions for Nearctic observations?

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sedgequeen February 19, 2024, 3:25am 14

Thank you for cleaning up this corner of the database! And for working to keep it clean. That really helps.

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Why getting Palaearctic species suggestions for Nearctic observations?

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