First record of the planthopper parasite moth Fulgoraecia exigua (Edwards) (Lepidoptera: Epipyropidae) in Canada, with notes on its collection and hosts
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Fulgoraecia exigua (Edwards) is a widespread but localized species in the eastern united States occurring from new Jersey and Ohio south to Florida and west to Texas (Covell 1984;Summerville et al. 1999), with scattered specimens collected from as far west as arizona (Edwards 1882).This species seems to be localized in habitat but when encountered can be numerous (JD pers.obs.). it is the sole nearctic species of Epipyropidae, a family in the superfamily Zygaenoidea that consists of specialist ectoparasites and ectoparasitoids of auchenorrhyncha and Sternorryncha that is most diverse in southeast Asia (wierczewski et al. 2016; liu et al. 2018).Specific information regarding the biology of F. exigua is limited, but in other epipyropids the female lays eggs on plants in the vicinity of potential hosts, and host selection is by the active first instar (e.g., wierczewski et al. 2016wierczewski et al. , liu et al. 2018wierczewski et al. , Sankararaman et al. 2020).On 7 august 2020, GP photographed an individual of Acanalonia conica (Say) with its wings sitting irregularly as a result of a distinct white protuberance on the side of its abdomen, a caterpillar of Fulgoraecia exigua with its characteristic waxy coating (Figs.123).after corresponding with SP, it was posted to inaturalist (https://www.inaturalist.org/)(Table 1) and represents the first record of this family within Canada (Pohl et al. 2018).On 11-13 August 2020, a targeted survey was made to look for additional specimens in two sites (Ojibway Park and the adjacent Ojibway Prairie Provincial Nature Reserve) of the area generally referred to as the Ojibway Prairie complex (see Paiero et al. 2010 for map) in Windsor, Ontario.This area supports a diverse assemblage of insects, including elements of Carolinian forest and grassland habitats, and an effort was made to survey the local Fulgoroidea species for F. exigua.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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".