Paramomirax peckorum Whitfield 2025, sp. nov.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Paramomirax peckorum Whitfield sp. nov. Figs 2 A – E, 3 A – H Type materials. Holotype. • Female, Colombia: Quindio, 21 km E. Calarca, 6-III-1974, 10,000 ’, S. & J. Peck, CNC 5342830. Deposited in Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes, Ottawa (CNC). Paratype. • 1 female, same data as holotype, CNC 5342831. Deposited in CNC. Description. Size. Body length (excluding ovipositor) 2.3 mm; fore wing length 2.7 mm. Coloration. Head and mesosoma black except lighter brownish lower genae; antenna black at extreme base (especially scape), pedicel distally and flagellum brown; mandibles and palpi pale brown to golden; legs proximally mostly dark brown, lightening distally on femora and most of tibiae, darker brown tarsi; pigmented parts of wing venation dark brown; metasoma fairly evenly deep brown dorsally, slightly lighter ventrally; ovipositor sheaths deep brown. Morphology. Face indistinctly punctate, smooth medially; antennae slightly shorter than body, flagellomeres 8–11 only 1.2–1.3 × longer than wide; pronotum laterally with sharp but weakly impressed upper and lower grooves; mesoscutum shiny, very indistinctly punctate, with notauli very weakly indicated on extreme anterior face; scutellum convex, weakly punctate, slightly longer than anteriorly wide, subtriangular but with curved scrobe separating it from mesoscutum; mesopleuron mostly convex and shiny, without any clear central grooves; metanotum mostly sunken relative to shiny raised medial boss; propodeum weakly sculptured, with percurrent longitudinal medial carina, crossed by angular transverse carina at just past midlength; anterior tergite 1 (T 1) narrow anteriorly, expanding into elongate oval posterior 0.75; laterotergal region of T 1 pigmented light brownish but sclerotized and strongly striate; T 2 and T 3 shiny, smooth and evenly sclerotized; typical miracine Y-shaped structure visible only as slightly differently colored areas hidden beneath cuticle; laterotergal regions of T 2 and T 3 evenly sclerotized as on dorsal parts. T 4 evenly sclerotized and shiny, similar to T 2 + 3; hypopygium evenly sclerotized, darker distally, somewhat acuminate but with blunt tip; ovipositor nearly straight, sheaths as long as hind tibiae and setose over entire distal 0.75. Male. Not known. Variation. Only two very similar females from the same locality are known. Distribution. Only one locality so far, in paramo vegetation over 3,000 m. Biology. Not known, but host presumed to be a small leaf-mining caterpillar as with other Miracinae. Notes. This species has by far the fewest desclerotized regions of the anterior metasoma, and the longest ovipositor, of any miracine yet discovered. It is also one of the largest (roughly 10–20 % larger than average). Etymology. The specific epithet is meant to honor the collectors, Stewart and Jarmila Kukalova-Peck.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.018 | 0.009 |
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".