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Record W4409123632 · doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5618.4.2

The Stiletto Flies (Diptera: Therevidae) of British Columbia, Yukon, and Alaska

2025· article· en· W4409123632 on OpenAlexaffabout
Joel F. Gibson, Robert A. Cannings

Bibliographic record

VenueZootaxa · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicFossil Insects in Amber
Canadian institutionsRoyal British Columbia Museum
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBiologyEcologyZoology

Abstract

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Therevidae (Stiletto Flies) is a cosmopolitan family of flies in the superfamily Asiloidea, containing over 1250 described species. There is no previously published treatment of the family in British Columbia, Yukon, and Alaska. An updated checklist of 34 species known in this region is presented based on over 2100 specimens, database records, photographs, and published records. A key based on non-genitalic characters provides identification to genera and to species where only one species of a genus is known in the region. Geographical distribution for species in each jurisdiction is given and is summarized using an ecoprovince approach for each of the 31 species in British Columbia, a comparable ecozone treatment for the 15 species known in the Yukon, and a generalized ecoregion system for the six species reported from Alaska. Where available, conservation ranks for each species are included. Ecological and behavioural information for each species, including known flight period in the region, is presented. Acrosathe vialis (Osten Sacken) is recorded new to Canada and British Columbia and Pallicephala quebecensis Webb and Irwin is reported from the Yukon for the first time.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Other design · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.840
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.008
GPT teacher head0.202
Teacher spread0.195 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designOther design
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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