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Incorrect species names

Submitted by Andrew Watchorn on

I have entered Parasola hemerobia against one of my entries. It has bee queried as not a current species. I have looked at the Basidiomycota Checklist Online. This shows that Parasola hemerobia is no longer used but its current equivalent is Coprinus hemerobius is the current name. However this is not on the iRecord list of species. What can I do to get it on?

How do I get a species name added so that records of it can be entered?

Submitted by Mike Fox on

The ant species Strumigenys perplexa has recently been recorded at several outdoor locatons on the island of Guernsey. It is likely that it will be found on the mainland soon. At present records for this species cannot be made on iRecord because the species name Strumigenys perplexa is not yet available. How do I get this species added so that records can be entered?

question for polygon users

Submitted by juliawilson on

If I draw a polygon around an area, at what level of precision does the system search for data? Background - people load data to our activity at varying levels of accuracy of OS grid reference. I drew a polygon around a particular area to search for data and it missed some of it which had been recorded as only 4 fig grid ref. The polygon lies within the 1 km square of that grid ref. So do polygons only pick up data for which the lower left hand corner of the grid ref lies within the polygon? or how do they work?