Metalectra discalis (Grote, 1876) Common Fungus Moth
Bibliographic record
Abstract
2. Metalectra discalis (Grote, 1876) Common Fungus Moth (Figs. 2–3, Map 3) Identification. Forewing length 10.0–13.0 mm. Metalectra discalis has a dark brown forewing mixed with creamcolored, gray, and reddish-brown scales. Basal and medial areas darker than rest of wing, but this may be less evident in worn specimens. Reniform spot is black and quadrate. Orbicular spot is black and obscure, not present in all specimens. There is a slightly curved row of white spots in the subterminal area. Hind wing has a similar pattern to forewing with a black, rectangular, discal spot; a curved line of small white spots; and a pair of white bars in the anal area. Similar to Metalectra quadrisignata (Walker), but M. discalis is darker in overall appearance with a wider black medial area that is less distinct than in M. quadrisignata. Flight period. May to early September. Collected localities. North Carolina: Swain Co.: Big Cove Rd., site b, site p, site w; Mt. Buckley; 300 feet above lake on Welch Ridge; 0.7 km up creek from mouth of Goldmine Creek; 0.7 km S Payne Cemetery; 0.4 km up trail from lake on Forney Creek; 0.2 km W mouth Hazel Creek. Tennessee: Blount Co.: Ace Gap Trailhead; Foothills Parkway West at E end; Cades Cove Ranger Station; Tremont; Cocke Co.: Foothills Parkway N, 4.5 mi from Rt. 321, 3rd overlook; Foothills Parkway, pull-off between 2nd and 3rd overlook up trail to right; Cosby Ranger Station (20 specimens) Elevation range. 1001–6560 ft. (305–1999 m) General distribution. This is an eastern species distributed from Quebec, Canada, south to Florida, and west to Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas. Larval hosts. Larvae feed on dry fungi (Covell 1984). MAP 3. Collecting localities of Metalectra discalis.
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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) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.022 | 0.006 |
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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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".