World Catalogue of Insects, volume 3: Dytiscidae (Coleoptera)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
With the growing interest in global biodiversity, the need for modern catalogues of all groups of organisms increase. Anders Nilsson’s first installment of his awaited catalogue of world Dytiscidae does not disappoint! This is the third volume of the series World Catalogue of Insects (now comprised of seven volumes) which aims at compiling updated authoritative catalogues of insects. Like earlier volumes of the series, this volume is amazingly thorough and covers 3,792 valid species. In this book, the family Dytiscidae is organized into 10 subfamilies following the subfamily concepts of Miller (2001). The volume begins with a 5-page introduction aiming at providing basic information on the organization of the catalogue. The plan and execution of the catalogue is excellent. All taxa of the same rank are listed alphabetically instead of systematically which facilitates fast retrieval of names without explicit knowledge of current views on relationships. For each taxon name an outline of the modern distribution is given which refers to major zoogeographical regions only. For each taxon a reference is given to the original description (author, year of publication, and page). For each genus-name is also given: 1) type species, 2) reference to how and where the type species were designated, and 3) gender. Only the current and the original combinations of species names are given. All synonyms are listed in chronological order under the valid name along with a reference to the first publication in which the synonym was established and the type locality.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.006 | 0.008 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.150 | 0.122 |
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".