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Search question

V recently commented on an image that is was Pandeleteius. We were interested in seeing what that was and copied the name into the search and got a reply that "your search yielded no results"!! We were able to track down the page through the species name, so we copied the genus name from the genus page into a search and got the same comment. How can the search not find a genus page?!

Today, I too had this happen with Pandeleteius. "Search"
found nothing; ditto for Pandeleteius hilaris. Two days ago, suspecting a misspelling in a species epithet, I tried searching for Menecles insertus, and found nothing, but DID find Menecles incertus, so I commented that insertus was incorrect. Fortunately I also then tried another route and was able to access Menecles insertus that way. I hastened to add a correction to my "correction" and expressed my embarrassment, but I gladly lay some of the blame on the "Search" problem. Has anyone been working on this?

For what it's worth
The genus Pandeleteinus also fails to show up in Search. All the other genera in the tribe Tanymecini do show up, though. I wonder if this has something to do with the names of these two genera?

And for those wondering what taxon is being discussed in this thread:
http://bugguide.net/node/view/187900

It's still not clear to us why BugGuide search
doesn't find it. We have never had this happen with any genus search before.

Google search
I tried Google. I used "Pandeleteius Bugguide.net" and got it. Even with a misspelled word it got it. Amazing!

 
Google Succeeds
I've had that experience with search terms of more than one word. Nada with bugguide's internal search, but success with Google using the site:bugguide.net delimiter.

Names not searched
I don't think search has ever searched on species name, and genus name may be skipped the same way. I usually put the name and author citation in the taxonomic history box, which is searched.

E.g. in the genus page for Musca, I would add "Musca Linnaeus 1758" in the taxonomy box.

Edit: That's already been done, so something weird is going on with that page.

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