Kunstidamaeus arthurjacoti sp. nov. (Oribatida, Damaeidae), first report of the genus in North America
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The oribatid mite genus Kunstidamaeus (Damaeidae) is known from 17 species distributed in Europe and Asia. Based on adult and juvenile specimens, we propose K. arthurjacoti sp. nov. as the first Nearctic species. It occurs in the eastern and midwestern USA, as well as Ontario, Canada, in diverse habitats including prairie sod, fens, and leaf litter in forests (both deciduous and coniferous). The new species fits no established species group but mixes traits of European and Asian species, including a flagellate bothridial seta, longitudinally oriented, barbed notogastral setae, and a strongly bent spina adnata. Unique traits include medial displacement of the bothridium and notogastral setae, a hypertrophied tubercle of epimeral seta 1c which closely opposes an accentuated tooth on the podocephalic tectum, and a unique development of the famulus on tarsus I.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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".