Annotated Checklist of Braconidae (Hymenoptera) in the Canadian Prairies Ecozone
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract. With more than 19,000 described species worldwide, parasitic wasps in the family Braconidae are the second largest group of Hymenoptera next to its sister lineage, Ichneumonidae. Despite their abundance and economic importance as potential biological control agents of forest and agricultural pests, little is known about the biodiversity of braconids in the Prairies Ecozone of Canada. The checklist of Braconidae was compiled by cross-referencing specimen localities with published records of braconid species found in the Prairie Provinces and supplemented with databased specimens from the Wallis-Roughley Museum of Entomology at the University of Manitoba. This checklist consists of 251 species, representing 22 different subfamilies, and includes14 new species records. Braconids in subfamilies such as Microgastrinae, Agathidinae, and Aphidiinae have a relatively large number of known species because of past research attention. Other subfamilies with fewer known species are undoubtedly more speciose than currently known, but are more diffi cult to identify because of a lack of taxonomic research and resources. It is hoped that this checklist serves as a baseline that will facilitate future biodiversity studies, conservation programs, and biological control research on Braconidae in the Prairies Ecozone of Canada. Résumé. Comptant plus de 19 000 espèces décrites à travers le monde, les guêpes parasites de la famille des Braconidae forment le deuxième groupe d’hyménoptères le plus important après sa lignée sœur, les Ichneumonidae. En dépit de leur abondance et de leur importance économique comme agents possibles de lutte
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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 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".