Microphorella viticula Brooks & Cumming 2022, sp. nov.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Microphorella viticula sp. nov. (Figs 1, 2, 49–55) urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: B4BCEB5C-323D-48AF-AE00-604896D7A5EC Type material. HOLOTYPE ♂ labelled: “ AUST: NSW: Blue Mtns. N.P./ Blackheath, Govetts/ Leap [ca 33°38′S 150°19′E], 4.iv.1994 / B.J. Sinclair / ex. dry scler. creek”; “ HOLOTYPE / Microphorella viticula / Brooks & Cumming [red label]” (CNC). Diagnosis. Males of M. viticula sp. nov. are distinguished from the other known Australasian Microphorella by the following combination of features: body and legs dark brown with black setation (Fig. 49); palpus dark and narrowly ovate (Fig. 51); hypopygium (Figs 53–55) with phallus greatly elongated, slender and tightly curled; hypandrium relatively small, slightly wider than epandrial lamellae in lateral view. Description. Male (Fig. 49): Body length 1.32 mm, wing length 1.35 mm. Similar to M. bungle sp. nov. except as follows: Head (Figs 50, 51): 2 pairs of inclinate fronto-orbitals, posterior pair smaller; postocular setae slightly longer and pale brown; postpedicel 2X longer than wide, with basal half round and distal half narrow; arista-like stylus 1.8X length of postpedicel. Thorax (Fig. 50). Legs (Fig. 49). Wing (Fig. 52). Abdomen (Figs 49, 53–55): Hypopygium (some details not visible on unique undissected holotype): Left ventral epandrial process longer. Ventral lobe of right surstylus apparently short, with a few apical setae. Hypandrium with posterior margin drawn into short pointed tip projecting dorsally and supporting protruding phallus. Ventral part of left postgonite lobe (medial to base of left ventral epandrial process) apparently developed into large flap-like lobe. Phallus greatly elongated, slender and tightly curled. Female. Unknown. Distribution. This species is known only from the type locality of Govetts Leap in Blue Mountains National Park, New South Wales, Australia (Figs 1, 2). Etymology. From the Latin viticula, meaning tendril, in reference to the long thin curled phallus of the male. Remarks. The single holotype male is stated as having been taken in dry sclerophyl habitat near the creek (Fig. 2), but was likely collected where the trail crosses the stream (B.J. Sinclair, pers. comm., 2022). Aside from the difference in phallic structure, the hypopygial morphology of M. viticula sp. nov. is very similar to M. bungle sp. nov. and the species appear closely related.
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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 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 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) | 0.009 | 0.007 |
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".