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Topic: Order not showing for some Aculeate families

Hello Chris.  I have just done a report in R6 asking for the orders of a batch of insect records to be displayed.

All is fine except for the following aculeate familes (one example for each family):

Recommended Taxon Name without Sub-genus    Taxon Family    Taxon Order    Taxon Class    Taxon Phylum    Taxon Kingdom    Taxon group

Andrena tarsata    Andrenidae    Animalia    Animalia    Animalia    Animalia    insect - hymenopteran
Colletes succinctus    Colletidae    Animalia    Animalia    Animalia    Animalia    insect - hymenopteran
Halictus rubicundus    Halictidae    Animalia    Animalia    Animalia    Animalia    insect - hymenopteran
Osmia bicornis    Megachilidae    Animalia    Animalia    Animalia    Animalia    insect - hymenopteran

I see on NBNG that Halictidae seems to have no higher hierarchy other than the Kingdom, while Vespidae has the full hierarchy.  I don't know if this is related to a point I mentioned in another post recently http://forums.nbn.org.uk/viewtopic.php?id=6467 where the hierarchy of aculeates has errors and inconsistencies.

I have frequently done reports of this sort over years, and never had this substitution of Animalia for Hymenoptera.

M.

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Re: Order not showing for some Aculeate families

Hi Murdo

Yes, Mike pointed that crazy one out to me the other day. Not sure how I managed to foul it up that badly when I revamped the bee families but I blame it on the primitive admin system for maintaining the Organism table! :)  I have corrected all of them in the meantime.

Best wishes,
Chris R.

Chris Raper, Manager of the UK Species Inventory, Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity,
Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD.  (tel: 020 7942 5894)
also Tachinid Recording Scheme (http://tachinidae.org.uk/)

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Re: Order not showing for some Aculeate families

Thanks, Chris, and for adding the fungus.

M.