First Alaocybites weevil (Insecta: Coleoptera: Curculionoidea) from the Eastern Palaearctic: a new microphthalmic species and generic relationships
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The genus Alaocybites (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea), previously consisting of two eyeless Californian species, is for the fi rst time reported from the East Palaearctic Region. A new microphthalmic species, A. egorovi sp.n., is described from Primor-sky Kray, the Far East of Russia. An early Late Pliocene Alaskan weevil fossil previously attributed to the molytine genus Otibazo is assigned to Alaocybites and found almost undistinguishable from A. egorovi sp.n. Results of preliminary phylo-genetic analyses aimed to clarify phylogenetic affinities of Alaocybites are found controversial and inconclusive. The uncer-tainties of the contemporary classifi cation of orthocerous weevils are briefl y discussed. Alaocybites is provisionally retained in Raymondionymidae, with the absence of tarsomere IV on each leg being the family's most plausible apomorphy. Mono-phyly, geographical distribution and internal relationships of Raymondionymidae are briefl y discussed and compared with other predominantly Mediterranean groups of eyeless beetles. External and genital morphological characters of edaphic weevils with reduced eyes habitually resembling, or thought to be related to, Alaocybites are extensively illustrated.
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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 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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 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".