New genera and species of feather mites of the family Gabuciniidae (Astigmata: Pterolichoidea) from New World raptors (Aves: Falconiformes)
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Abstract
Abstract We describe four new species of feather mites of the family Gabuciniidae collected from Accipitridae and Falconidae (Falconiformes) from South and North America. Three of these belong to new genera,Metagabuciniagen. nov. with one new species andProaposolenidiagen. nov.with two new species. We also describe one new species of the genusAposolenidiaGaud and Atyeo. The new species and host records areAposolenidia striatasp. nov.from the pearl kite,Gampsonyx swainsoniiVigors,Metagabucinia caracaraesp. nov.from the red-throated caracara,Ibycter americanus(Boddaert),Proaposolenidia accipitrissp. nov.from the Cooper’s hawk,Accipiter cooperii(Bonaparte), andProaposolenidia elanoidessp. nov.from the swallow-tailed kite,Elanoides forficatus(Linnaeus).Aposolenidia,Metagabucinia, andProaposolenidiaconstitute a morphologically distinct group within the Gabuciniidae. This “Aposolenidiagenus group” is characterized by the following features: bases of epimerites of legs I and II inflated, ball-shaped, heavily sclerotized, and connected by sclerotized dorsolateral bridges; tarsi of legs I and II with dorsal walls strongly thickened and dorsobasal part of tarsus I inflated. Members of this group coexist on falconiforms with other gabuciniid taxa that exhibit longer and more extensively sclerotized bodies, such as the generaAetacarusGaud and Atyeo,HieracolichusGaud and Atyeo, andRamogabuciniaGaud and Atyeo.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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.
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