A new species of darkling beetles of the genus Blaps Fabricius, 1775 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) from Turkmenistan and Iran
Bibliographic record
Abstract
A new species of darkling beetles, Blaps ernesti sp. n., is described from the Southeast Caspian region (Turkmenistan, Iran). Allard was the first to describe this species in 1882, but he misidentified it as "Blaps variolaris Gemminger, 1870", the junior synonym of Blaps rugosa Gebler, 1825, which is distributed in Russian Eastern Siberia, China and Mongolia. Seidlitz in 1893 and subsequent authors interpreted the Irano-Turkmen species as Blaps variolaris with the authorship of Allard, which is contrary to Article 49 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. The new species is morphologically similar to Blaps mortisaga Linnaeus, 1758 but differs in the very coarse and dense punctation of its pronotum and elytra, in contrast to fine and sparse pronotal punctation and smooth elytra in the latter species. The basal duct of the spermatheca, between the vagina and reservoirs of the spermatheca of B. mortisaga, is short relative to the long accessory gland, reservoirs of the spermatheca are thin and elongated, the 1 st reservoir is widened at the apex and 1.5 times longer than the 2 nd reservoir. The basal duct of the spermatheca in Blaps ernesti sp. n. is very long relative to the short accessory gland, reservoirs of spermatheca are fusiform in the apical half, the 1 st reservoir is slightly longer than the 2 nd one. The new species is externally similar to Blaps dehaani Baudi di Selve, 1875 by punctation of pronotum and elytra, but differs in the larger body (18-28 mm vs 15-20 mm), very long male mucro and the hair tuft between abdominal ventrites 1 and 2.
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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
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| 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".