Integrative taxonomy improves understanding of native beneficial fauna: revision of the <scp>N</scp> earctic <i> <scp>P</scp> eristenus pallipes </i> complex ( <scp>H</scp> ymenoptera: <scp>B</scp> raconidae) and implications for release of exotic biocontrol agents
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract The N earctic P eristenus pallipes complex ( H ymenoptera: B raconidae) consists of two species groups that are further divided into nine species, separated largely using ecological rather than morphological differences. The species are re‐examined with an integrative approach using morphometric multivariate ratios, molecular ( COI and CytB ), and ecological data to test the validity of the nine species. The data support only three valid species [ P . dayi G oulet, P . mellipes ( C resson) and P . howardi S haw] rather than nine. New synonymies include: P . braunae G oulet under P . dayi G oulet 2006 syn.n. ; P . carcamoi G oulet, P . otaniae G oulet and P . pseudopallipes ( L oan) under P . mellipes ( C resson) syn.n. , and finally P . broadbenti G oulet 2006 and P . gillespiei G oulet 2006 under P . howardi S haw 1999 syn.n . In light of these taxonomic revisions, the biology and distributions of the N earctic P . pallipes complex are updated, resulting in three morphologically variable, widespread, multivoltine species rather than nine largely univoltine species with patchy distributions. The integrative taxonomic approach used here allowed for a more accurate delineation of native fauna and their potential to be competitively displaced by foreign biocontrol agents.
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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 | 0.005 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.010 | 0.006 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.008 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
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".