Integrated taxonomic revision of the mining bee subgenus Andrena (Micrandrena) (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae) in the Levant and Cyprus
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Andrena (Micrandrena) Ashmead is the largest subgenus of Andrena Fabricius 1775, with more than 150 species distributed throughout the northern hemisphere. The subgenus has gained notoriety as one of the most difficult taxonomic groups of bees, and remains poorly studied across large parts of the Palaearctic region. Based on extensive collecting in Israel, Lebanon and Cyprus, together with efficient DNA barcoding and and re-examination of old museum material, we present a thorough revision of the species of A. (Micrandrena) occuring in the region of the Levant (Israel, the West Bank, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria) and the island of Cyprus, including a detailed identification key, and a summary of our knowledge of the distribution, phenology and foraging biology of each taxon. Our study enumerates forty-two species of Andrena (Micrandrena) from the Levant and Cyprus, including four species new to the region, and nine species new to science: Andrena aphroditae Pisanty sp. nov. , A. alshaykh Pisanty sp. nov. , A. aspera Pisanty & Wood sp. nov. , A. chananaea Pisanty & Wood sp. nov. , A. friedmani Pisanty sp. nov. , A. hebraica Pisanty & Wood sp. nov. , A. kugleri Pisanty sp. nov. , A. libanica Wood sp. nov. , and A. phoenicia Pisanty sp. nov. We describe the males of A. calandra Warncke, 1975 and A. lindbergella Pittioni, 1950 for the first time. We additionally synonymise Andrena dargia Warncke, 1965 with A. minutula (Kirby, 1802) syn. nov. , and recognise two previously subspecific names as valid species: Andrena leptura Warncke, 1974 stat. nov. and A. povolnyi , 1974 Warncke stat. nov.
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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) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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 it