Empis (Enoplempis) joanae Sinclair, Brooks & Cumming, 2025, sp. nov.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Empis (Enoplempis) joanae sp. nov. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: F14864FA-94BA-4BD6-97CB-2F56A440E780 (Figs 365, 366, 369, 370) Type material. HOLOTYPE ♂ (Fig.365),labelled:“U.S.A.:WV: Monongahela,/ Pocahontas County;/ 38.371650°N 79.761117°W;/ 20.V.2000; MT; L. Butler,/ J. Strazanac; CNC513376 ”; “ HOLOTYPE / Empis (Enoplempis) / joanae Sinclair,/ Brooks & Cumming [red label]” [dissected] (CNC). PARATYPES: USA. Virginia: Amherst County: summit, Cold Mtn, nr Hog Camp Gap, Appalachian Tr., 1256 m, N 37°45′8″ W 79°12′12″, 7.vi.2001, J. Skevington (2♂, CNC). Diagnosis. This species is assigned to the E. (En.) snoddyi group on the basis of the narrow epandrium, form of the apex of the phallus and long, narrow hind femur with slender, erect ventral setae (Fig. 366). The new species is distinguished by the broad, untapered male cercus, with the medial face with short, dense setae. Description. Wing length 5.2–5.7 mm. Male. Similar to E. (En.) snoddyi Steyskal except as follows: thorax with pleura dark grey, concolourous with scutum, without pale highlights along sutures (Fig. 365). Terminalia (Fig. 369): yellowish brown, except dorsal and apical margins of cerci dark. Cercus separated from dorsal margin of epandrium, untapered, with rounded apical margin; medial face with short, dense setae; dorsal margin of cercus with short, strong setae. Hypoproct lacking setae; subepandrial process slender, with hooked tip, not extending to phallus. Epandrial lamella slender, slightly longer than cercus; subapical portion narrowed, apex rounded; strong setae along ventral margin and apex. Hypandrium short, truncate posteriorly, slightly projected medially, about 0.25× as long as epandrium; clothed with several dark setae, longer than hypandrium. Phallus broadly tubular, narrowed subapically with broadly rounded apex and slender, anterior apical filament; ejaculatory apodeme 0.5× length of epandrium; T-shaped, with median keel. Female. Unknown. Geographical distribution and seasonal occurrence (Fig. 370). Empis (En.) joanae sp. nov. is currently known only from the “Delmarva” [see Remarks] states and specifically in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia and West Virginia. Adults have been collected in May and June. Etymology. This species is dedicated to the first author’s mother, Joan Sinclair, who always supported his unlikely adventures in entomology and closely followed the lives and careers of her four children. Nuptial gift presentation. Form unknown, but presumably involves balloons similar to those of E. (En.) snoddyi and E. (En.) vockerothi Cumming (Fig. 14) (Sinclair et al. 2013). Remarks. Following the publication of the revision of eastern North American E. (Enoplempis) by Sinclair et al. (2013), a male specimen, collected in the “Delmarva” states (see Murphy et al. 2018) Malaise trap survey, was identified as a new species on the basis of the male terminalia. This led to the re-examination of specimens of E. (En.) snoddyi from this area. As a result, the two male specimens from Virginia listed above, were mistakenly listed under E. (En.) snoddyi in Sinclair et al. (2013).
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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) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.023 | 0.015 |
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".