Bibliographic record
Abstract
Beckerus Johnson, New Genus Type species. Elater appressus Randall, 1838; here designated Description: Body short, broadly arcuate laterally, weakly convex, broadened posteriorly. Integument shining, sparsely punctured; pubescence sparse, pallid, short and recumbent. Head with frons depressed to slightly concave; supra-antennal ridge transverse, widely separated on frons. Antenna serrate to subpectinate, exceeding pronotal hind angles by 2–4 segments; segment 3 serrate, coarsely and sparsely punctured. Thorax with pronotum length 0.74X width; disc slightly convex, broadly deplanate laterally; hind angle with evanescent dorsal carina, apex rounded; basal incisures short. Prosternum with anterior lobe short, 0.25 X width, strongly deflexed; intercoxal process strongly arched; pronotopleural sutures closed anteriorly. Hypomeron with medial margin simple; posterior margin broadly emarginate. Scutellum quadrate to subpentagonal. Mesepimeron broadly adjacent to coxal cavity. Metaventrite with anterior intercoxal process narrowly rounded. Elytral striae weakly striatopunctate; intervals flat with large punctures; costal margin broadly explanate, reflexed. Aedeagus with median lobe deflexed apically; lateral lobe hooked apically, apex desclerotized mesally and setose at tip. Gonocoxites moderately scleroized; ovipositor rods longer than ventrites 1– 5; bursa copulatrix expanded, colleterial glands and lateral swellings with small moderately sclerotized plate dorsally; spermatheca tubular, distal; spermathecal reservoir similar and near to spermatheca. Name derivation. This genus is named in honor of the late Edward C. Becker (1923-2008), longtime elaterid specialist, friend, and mentor. Species included. Beckerus appressus (Randall, 1838), new combination; Beckerus barri (Lane, 1965), new combination. Beckerus appressus (Randall, 1838) NOVA SCOTIA: Halifax Co.: Grassy Lake, 1–16.vii.1997, D.J. Bishop, red spruce forest, flight-intercept trap, NSMC; Victoria Co.: Sunday Lake, Cape Breton Highlands National Park, 14.vi.1996, R.F. Lauff, regenerating coniferous forest, NSMC. Newly recorded in Nova Scotia. In New Brunswick collected in old-growth spruce (Picea sp.)-balsam fir (Abies balsamaea )) forest. In New York found at higher elevations on ferns growing in Sphagnum moss; larvae are found in the Sphagnum (Dietrich 1945).
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.018 | 0.005 |
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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".