Sclerocoelus dominicensis Kuwahara, Marshall & Paiero, 2025, sp. nov.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Sclerocoelus dominicensis sp. nov. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: E1B2E330-F92F-4B17-80F5-067F2C3BDD39 Figs 6D, 45–46 Etymology This name reflects the apparent restriction of this species to the island of Dominica. Material examined Holotype DOMINICA • ♂; Clarke Hall Estate; 3 Jun. 1966; G. Steyskal leg.; USNM. Paratypes DOMINICA • 3 ♂♂; same data as for holotype; USNM • 1 ♂; Clark Hall Estate; 2 Jun. 1966; G. Steyskal leg.; USNM • 2 ♂♂; Clarke Hall Estate; 4 Jun. 1966; G. Steyskal leg.; USNM • 1 ♂; Clarke Hall Estate; 11–20 Mar. 1965; W.W. Wirth leg.; USNM • 1 ♂; Clarke Hall Estate; 13 May 1966; G. Steyskal leg.; USNM • 1 ♀; South Chiltern Estate; 20 Feb. 1965; W.W. Wirth leg.; USNM. Description BODY (Fig. 45A). Length 1.8–2.5 mm. Head brown, lower third of frons orange; face, gena, and antennae orange-brown. Frontal width 2.4–2.5× frontal height. Three pairs of strong interfrontal bristles surmounting a very fine fourth pair; anterior orbital 0.6–0.7 × length of posterior. Palpus yellow. Eye large, greatest height about 3.5 × shortest genal height. Thorax brown, scutum with paler lateral edges. Two pairs of dorsocentral bristles (anterior pair distinct, 0.4× length of posterior pair) separated by 8–9 rows of acrostichal setulae. Membrane around prosternum bare. Legs yellow, mid and hind femora slightly darker. Fore femur with three large ventral preapical setae. Ventral surface of male mid tibia with two rows of stout setae in apical quarter. Wing (Fig. 6D) hyaline. CS2 0.7–0.8 × CS3. Halter pale brown. MALE ABDOMEN (Figs 45B–C, 46). Dark brown, tergites reddish medially, posterior edges of tergites slightly desclerotized. T2–5 and S2–4 uniformly long-setose with large posterolateral setae. S5 rectangular, 1.1× as long as S4, right side longer than left side, posterolaterally long setose with a very large desclerotized medial area (extending almost to anterior edge), a large, dark, rectangular, medial patch of dense but fine setulae, and a large, dark, anvil-shaped posteromedial sclerite. Anterior flange of S6+7 1.5× as long as wide; S6+7 completely separated from completely from S8. Sclerite A small, lightly sclerotized; sclerite B well developed and long, normally arched into genital pouch; sclerite C absent; sclerite D well sclerotized and L-shaped; sclerite E small, fitting into a depression in distal half of large sclerite F; sclerite G small, about as large as ring sclerite; ring sclerite well sclerotized. Epandrium large, 0.4× length of S8, height 1.4× maximum length and 0.8 × maximum width, uniformly long-setose; perianal pads weakly developed but densely setulose. Pseudocercus very small, bearing only a single seta; halves of subepandrial sclerite short and narrow, swollen where they contact subcercus and very weakly fused medially. Subcercus large and shield-like with small lobes articulating with surstylus and epandrium, apex truncate. Hypandrium with long anteromedial apodeme. Surstylus very large and broad, twice as long as deep, concave, with dense lateral setae and a setose inner basal ridge (ridge entire). Postgonite relatively short, angulate, concave ventrally, apex swollen with prominent ridges. Phallapodeme large, gradually broadened towards apex; basiphallus expanded posterodorsally with a notched central lobe and a pair of rounded, downturned lateral lobes, basal part extending ventrally as an apically flared tube-like section which articulates with distiphallus; distiphallus largely reduced with a broad dorsal sclerite and a narrow, U-shaped ventral sclerite. FEMALE ABDOMEN. T7 broad, posteromedially shortened; T8 divided into a small, pale dorsal sclerite and two dark lateral sclerites with angulate posteroventral corner. Epiproct small, pale, and posteromedially setulose. Cercus narrow and elongate with a large apical seta and a moderate preapical seta. S7 rounded posteriorly; S8 reduced to two dark, ovoid lateral sclerites. Three spermathecae, single one larger than paired ones, bulb bean-shaped and smooth with a slight basal invagination. Distribution Neotropical: Dominica. Remarks Sclerocoelus dominicensis sp. nov. is morphologically very similar to S. irregularis sp. nov., S. pararegularis sp. nov., and S. regularis, from which it differs in having an apically truncate subcercus; females of these species seem to be indistinguishable. Sclerocoelus dominicensis is one of six species known from the Caribbean, the other five being the very widespread S. caribensis, S. rectangularis (Malloch, 1914), S. regularis (which occurs in Trinidad), S. dasysternum sp. nov., and S. vulgatus sp. nov. (which both occur in Tobago). All ten specimens of S. dominicensis were collected during the Bredin-Archbold-Smithsonian Biological Survey of Dominica. The female abdomen is not illustrated here as the abdomen of the only known female specimen is damaged.
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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 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 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 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.009 | 0.004 |
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".