Pseudopterogramma kasut Kuwahara, Marshall & Luk, 2025, sp. nov.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Pseudopterogramma kasut sp. nov. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: F48A9B40-DE5F-4F69-BA7B-17865058BF15 Figs 60–62, 68G, 69 Etymology The species name (from the Malay ‘ kasut ’, ‘shoe’) refers to the distinctive, shoe-shaped surstylus. Material examined Holotype SINGAPORE • ♂; National University of Singapore, Prince George Park Residence; 3 May 2017; NUS Insect Survey leg.; LKCNHM. Paratypes INDONESIA – Java • 1 ♂; Ujung Kulon, Gunung Payung; 21 Sep. 1984; 1984 Zoological Expedition Krakataus leg.; Malaise; ANIC. SINGAPORE • 1 ♂; Nee Soon Swamp Forest (NS1); 23 May 2012; Singapore Mangrove Insect Project leg.; DEBU • 1 ♂, 1 ♀; same collection data as for preceding; 15 May 2013; DEBU • 1 ♀; same collection data as for preceding; 26 Jun. 2013; DEBU • 1 ♂; same collection data as for preceding; 10 Jul. 2013; LKCNHM • 1 ♂; same collection data as for preceding; 6 Nov. 2013; DEBU • 2 ♂♂, 1 ♀; Nee Soon Swamp Forest (NSM1); 3 Dec. 2014; Singapore Mangrove Insect Project leg.; LKCNHM. Description BODY (Fig. 60). Length 1.1–1.4 mm. Head caramel-brown, slightly darkened at level of ocelli, orbital plates, and interfrontal plate. Interfrontal bristles in four fine pairs. Thorax brown, scutum caramel-brown and shiny; scutellum brown. Anterior dorsocentral bristles separated by 7–8 rows of acrostichal setulae. Fore tibia and basal two-thirds of hind tibia yellow, mid tibia and femora brown. Ventral surface of male mid tibia with a small midventral bristle and a small apicoventral bristle. Hind tibia with several long, fine, dorsal preapical setae (slightly shorter than first hind tarsomere). Wing (Fig. 68G) hyaline with a dark spot around R 2+3. R 2+3 very slightly sinuate; M 4 not extending beyond dm-m. MALE ABDOMEN (Fig. 61). S5 simple, broad, right side subequal to left, uniformly setose laterally, and slightly desclerotized posteromedially. S6 long but relatively broad with a setulose membranous part under (dorsal to) posteromedial part of S5, anterolateral corner slightly expanded and flared. Epandrium large, wedge-shaped, longer on left side, and uniformly setose, ventrolateral margin greatly enlarged and fused to cercus; cercus large, flattened, and slightly paler than epandrium, with several long setae, ventral surface with a narrow fused bar (superficially similar to a subepandrial sclerite?). Surstylus long but low, strongly curved (L-shaped), ventral margin with several long setae, apex densely setulose on both inner and outer surfaces (more-so on inner surface). Postgonite elongate, anterior margin sinuate, apex curved forwards (J-shaped) with several stout, tooth-like ventral lobes along inner surface. Phallapodeme relatively short and apically bent; basiphallus small, ring-shaped with a small posterodorsal point. Distiphallus very large, largely membranous with a small, ring-like sclerotized basal part and a U-shaped apical sclerite supporting membranous apex; membrane with large, densely creased and setulose dorsal flaps. FEMALE ABDOMEN (Fig. 62). Epiproct broad, slightly pentagonal, desclerotized anteromedially and entirely setulose. Cercus subtriangular with long, sinuate apical seta and preapical setae. S8 subrectangular, well-developed. Hypoproct trough-shaped. Spermathecae stout and asymmetrical, single spermatheca large and spherical with rows of small basal pits, paired spermathecae significantly reduced and balloonshaped. Remarks Pseudopterogramma kasut sp. nov. and Ps. annectens have similar largely hyaline wings and both species have three pairs of weak interfrontal bristles, but Ps. kasut is characterized by an indistinct M 4 beyond dm-m, a small mid ventral mid tibial seta, and a stout apicoventral mid tibial seta.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.028 | 0.010 |
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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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".