Two new species of sympatric Fergusonina Malloch flies (Diptera: Fergusoninidae) from bud galls on high-elevation snow gums (Eucalyptus pauciflora Sieb. ex Spreng. complex) in the Australian Alps
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Two Fergusonina (Diptera: Fergusoninidae) flies are described from terminal leaf bud galls on high-elevation snow gums (Eucalyptus pauciflora complex) in the Australian Alps. The new species, Fergusonina daviesae Nelson and Yeates sp. nov. and Fergusonina taylori Nelson and Yeates sp. nov., occur in sympatry at the six collection locations. After extensive field studies, these are the only two Fergusonina species that have been found on high-elevation snow gums. The two can be distinguished from each other by differences in adult size and markings on the mesonotum. The mature larvae, which are superficially similar to each other, but differ in shape and details of the dorsal shield ornamentation, are described. Additionally, a cytochrome oxidase I (COI) sequence divergence of 12.55% between the two putative species supports the conclusions drawn from the morphological study. The two species can be distinguished from other described species of Fergusonina by host specificity, adult colour, setation and larval dorsal shield morphology.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".