Scipopus (Parascipopus) kubus Lindsay & Marshall 2023, subgen. et sp. nov.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Scipopus (Parascipopus) kubus subgen. et sp. nov. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: D58F6E83-3CE4-4A3C-9CCA-B7BEB4008E7F Fig. 38 Differential diagnosis Scipopus (Parascipopus) kubus sp. nov. resembles most species of Scipopus s. str. in having a primarily orange head and dark brown body with a blue sheen, but differs from Scipopus s. str. in having an entirely white microtrichose anepisternum, an anteriorly tapered and pointed frontal vitta, a shiny orbital plate and a more anteriorly tapered thorax (length/height>1). Etymology The species name is a noun in apposition that honours the first author’s significant other. Type material examined Holotype COSTA RICA • 1 ♀; Alajuela, San Ramón Biol. Res.; 900 m a.s.l.; Apr–May 2000.; P. Hanson leg.; debu00206289/MYCRO579-19 sequenced for COI; MNCR (photographed, Fig. 38A, B, D). Paratypes COSTA RICA • 1 ♀; same collection data as for holotype; debu00206315/MYCRO568-19 sequenced for CO1; MNCR (dissected and photographed, Fig. 38C) • 1 ♀; same collection data as for preceding; MNCR. Description LENGTH. 11–15 mm. HEAD. Antenna orange. Palpus orange, brown basally, pale microtrichose and setulose, narrow (length 5.0× height). Clypeus orange, brown medially, width ~2.1 × height, sparsely silvery microtrichose on entire surface. Frontal vitta dull, orange, microtrichose, posterior apex evenly tapered to a narrow apex. Orbital plate orange, shiny, bare, clearly delineated. Epicephalon orange, shiny, bare, wide (width>⅔ of upper frontal vitta width at inner verticals), clearly delineated from upper frontal vitta. Paracephalon orange. All head chaetotaxy well-developed. THORAX. Scutum black-brown, dark brown microtrichose, with a very broad silvery-blue median sheen. Female cervical sclerite convex. Postpronotal lobe black-brown, setulose on outer lateral margin. Notopleuron black-brown. Pleuron black-brown with blue sheen, entirely covered in silvery microtrichosity, denser on posterior katepisternum and forming transverse silvery band (only visible at some angles). Legs black-brown; fore and hind tarsomere 1 dark brown or black with ventral golden fringe. Wing evenly dark brown infuscate. Apical scutellar seta present. FEMALE ABDOMEN. T1 with fine, long, white setae. Pleuron pale grey, microtrichose, P1, dorsal half of P2 dark brown or grey, indistinctly dark brown or grey on dorsal half of P3–6. T1+2 ~2.2× length of T3. Oviscape black-brown, setulose, white microtrichose on anterior ⅓, ~3.0 × length of T6. Common duct very short, ⅛ of entire duct length. Paired spermathecal duct short (4.0 × length of paired spermathecae) narrow, very swollen distally. Paired spermathecal stems with very short, narrow, straight basal section and long, sinuate distal portion. Paired spermathecae ovoid, with an apical indentation (collapsed in Fig. 38C). Single spermathecal duct arising from base of paired duct, narrow, ½ diameter and ¾ length of paired duct, single spermatheca elongate, inornate. MALE ABDOMEN. Not observed. Distribution Costa Rica.
Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.
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 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.010 | 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; 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".