Bibliographic record
Abstract
Microphorella breviradia species group Diagnosis. The Microphorella breviradia species group can be distinguished from other parathalassiines by the following suite of characters: wing with short R 1 vein that terminates at or before midpoint of wing (Fig. 3); mouthparts with sensory pit on palpus; male abdominal sternite 5 with short broad ventral projection; hypopygium (Figs 4, 10, 11, 14, 19, 20, 21) with epandrium and hypandrium partially fused together, right epandrial lamella greatly enlarged and comprising most of hypopygium in right lateral view, hypandrium reduced to narrow subtriangular band positioned on left side of hypopygium; female abdomen (Figs 31, 32) with 7 exposed abdominal segments, telescoping terminalia retracted into segment 7, syntergite 9+10 with acanthophorous setae (Figs 16, 17), syntergite 9+10 and sternite 10 widely separated, cercus ovoid with long apical setae (Figs 16, 32). See Cumming & Brooks (2019) for additional parathalassiine features possessed by members of this species group. Remarks. The Microphorella breviradia species group includes three new species from western North America (described below) that share a short R 1 wing vein and a distinctively modified male hypopygium. The former feature is seen in some non-Nearctic parathalassiines (e.g., the Microphorella malaysiana species group, Neothalassius, Chimerothalassius, Eothalassius), but not in other known extant Nearctic species groups of Microphorella. There is a fossil species of Microphorella described from the middle Eocene Kishenehn Formation in northwestern Montana that may also belong to the M. breviradia species group (Greenwalt et al. 2022). Members of the species group are generally found along fast flowing rivers and streams (Figs 6–9). Cumming & Brooks (2019) referred to this lineage as the “ Microphorella short R 1 species group” in their phylogenetic analysis of relationships within the Parathalassiinae. Key to males of species of the Microphorella breviradia species group 1 Head with face broad, nearly twice width of anterior ocellus at narrowest point (Fig. 5); fore tarsomere 5 with tuft of long dorsal setae............................................................................ M. macdonaldi sp. nov. - Head with face narrow, about width of anterior ocellus at narrowest point (Fig. 2); fore tarsomere 5 with shorter dorsal setae ................................................................................................... 2 2 Hypopygium with basiventral projection(s) on right dorsal surstylar lobe (Figs 11, 12, 13); phallus long and tubular, bearing very slender process medially (Fig. 10)................................................. M. breviradia sp. nov. - Hypopygium without basiventral projections on right dorsal surstylar lobe (Fig. 20); phallus stout and bifid, bearing thick process ventrally (Fig. 19)................................................................. M. vespera sp. nov.
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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) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.002 |
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".