<I>Catalogue of Palearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 1: Archostemata – Myxophaga – Adephaga;</I> and <I>Vol. 2: Hydrophiloidea – Histeroidea – Staphylinoidea</I>
Bibliographic record
Abstract
I. Löbl, and A. Smetana, Apollo Books, Stenstrup, Denmark, 2003 and 2004, 819 and 942 pp., $152 and $183 (hard), ISBN 87-88757-73-0 and 87-88757-74-9 Managing and conserving biodiversity requires a precise reference system for organizing, classifying, and naming species. This is the science of taxonomy. The strength of the system is that names are unique and apply to one and only one species of organism. There should be no ambiguity. When I use the ground beetle name Carabus nemoralis, it should apply to a single species, and everyone on earth should know exactly which species that is meant. Unfortunately, this is not always the case. For many years, taxonomists dealing with the Nearctic insect fauna have struggled to reconcile the taxonomy of species in the Nearctic region with the taxonomy of species in the Palearctic region. Simply put, ensuring that the scientific name applied to a species in North America refers to that same species in Europe and Asia has long been a great challenge. In these days of global trade and the enhanced threats posed by invasive species, this is an increasingly important task as we strive to protect our natural resources from alien pests. But this is often much more difficult than it may seem, and generally each species name requires the personal examination of obscure and scattered literature and of many museum specimens (ideally, type specimens) to ensure that names are applied correctly and that all possible cases of synonymy (different names, same species) recognized. One resource that can exponentially diminish the amount of detective work is an authoritative, meticulously prepared and verified recent catalogue of the taxon in question. Until recently, coleopterists in the Northern Hemisphere attempting to verify the taxonomic status of most beetles had to carry out most of the ground work themselves. Not so anymore. With the publication of the Catalogue of Palearctic Coleoptera, much of this work has now been (or will soon be) performed.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
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 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.134 | 0.114 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".