Flesh flies (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) attracted to dog-day cicada (Neotibicen canicularis (Harris) Hemiptera: Cicadidae) carcasses in Québec, Canada
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This study was carried out to determine the diversity of Diptera attracted to carcasses of dog-day cicadas, Neotibicen canicularis (Harris) (Hemiptera: Cicadidae), during the late summer of 2019 in Montréal, Québec, Canada. Only sarcophagid larvae were found in cicada carcasses and were maintained until pupariation for species identification. Emerged specimens were identified as Emblemasoma albicoma Reinhard, Emblemasoma erro Aldrich, Helicobia rapax (Walker), Sarcophaga (Liosarcophaga) sarracenioides Aldrich, and Sarcophaga (Wohlfahrtiopsis) utilis Aldrich. These results provide new insight into the feeding habits of these species. Also, despite their wide range of rearing records, H. rapax, S. sarracenioides, and S. utilis have never been associated with N. canicularis, and this association is published here for the first time. Finally, this is the first record of E. erro in Québec and of E. erro utilizing N. canicularis as a host.
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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 | 0.003 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 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".