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genus: Calephelis species: laverna #16

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@thompsonmj

An entry "Calephelis laverna" whose resolution with GNVerifier using GBIF provides sparse yet confident rank hits at just the kingdom, genus, and species levels. The final resolution is, e.g.:

{
  "uuid": "109fff25-cccb-4c5f-823e-89da7d1c8d76",
  "scientific_name": "Calephelis laverna",
  "source_dataset": "unknown",
  "source_id": "20386037",
  "resolution_status": "EXACT_MATCH_PRIMARY_SOURCE_ACCEPTED_SIMPLE",
  "kingdom": "Animalia",
  "phylum": null,
  "class": null,
  "order": null,
  "family": null,
  "genus": "Calephelis",
  "species": "Calephelis laverna",
  "resolution_path": "RESOLVED",
  "resolution_strategy": "ExactMatchPrimarySourceAcceptedSimple",
  "final_query_term": "Calephelis laverna",
  "final_query_rank": "species",
  "final_data_source_id": 11,
  "common_name": "Animal"
}

This is a shortcoming of the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy.

It should be mitigated by detecting a sparse internal resolution (here, 4 missing values at internal ranks) by querying additional data providers (COL, OTOL) to either supplement or supplant this data.

For example, COL contains filled out hierarchy data:

Eukaryota (domain) >> Animalia (kingdom) >> Arthropoda (phylum) >> Insecta (class) >> Lepidoptera (order) >> Papilionoidea (superfamily) >> Riodinidae (family) >> Riodininae (subfamily) >> Riodinini (tribe) >> Calephelis (genus) >> Calephelis laverna (species)

The solution to this may also address #15.

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