Revision of Neotropical Aphrophorine Spittlebugs, Part 3: A New Caribbean Tribe Leocomiini (Hemiptera, Cercopoidea)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
A new tribe Leocomiini, related to Orthoraphini and Capnodistini, is described from the Caribbean Basin and Central America. Seven genera and 33 species are described and keyed, including 2 new genera, Arcadiana and Lepyronura, plus 12 new species: Arcadiana acunai and Dasyoptera spinifera from Cuba; Enocomia jamaicensis, Lepyronura bulbosa, and L. minuenda from Jamaica; L. furcata from Hispaniola; Epicranion martorelli from Puerto Rico; E. contrastum, E. ferrudorsum, Leocomia cincta, and L. pedestris from Central America; plus Epicranion (Conicranion subg.nov.) trispinatum from Venezuela. Asprocranites Ramos, 1957 is synonymized with Dasyoptera Metcalf & Bruner, 1925; Gaeta Metcalf & Bruner and Pseudocraniolum Hedicke are reduced to subgenera of Leocomia Ball; and Gaetopsis Ramos plus Leocomiopsis Metcalf and Bruner are made subgenera of Enocomia and Epicranion, respectively. These changes create 9 new combinations, and 2 other species are synonymized: Leocomia grisea (Metcalf and Bruner, 1925) with L. maestralis Metcalf and Bruner, 1925; and L. fulva (Metcalf and Bruner, 1925) with L. pileae (Metcalf and Bruner, 1925). One species is renamed Dasyoptera fasciata to replace the secondary homonym created when Asprocranites variegata Ramos, 1957 is transferred by generic synonymy. All these changes are summarized in a checklist. The phylogeny and distribution of Leocomiini indicates an origin on Caribbean islands with subsequent dispersal to the mainland.
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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) | 0.002 | 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".