Oreiscelio zulu Talamas & Johnson & van Noort & Masner & Polaszek 2009, sp. n.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Oreiscelio zulu Talamas & Polaszek, sp. n. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 69A3FD7C-8202-434C-98FE-A15E64BBE08A urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts: 244054 Figures 127-132; Morphbank 62 Description. General. Body length of female: 2.4-2.5 mm (n=3). Body color: black. Antenna: Color of antennae in female: dark brown to black throughout. Seta on pedicel of antenna in female: present, reaching past apex of A3. Head: Color of setae on the head: white. Sculpture of dorsal frons between frontal carina and median ocellus: areolate. Preocellar pit in females: absent. Transverse rugae at vertex: present. Sculpture of posterior vertex: areolate. Sculpture of occipital rim: areolate. Interantennal process: extended dorsally into medial flange, flange reaching from near apex of interantennal process to frons. Number of anteriorly projecting setae on anteclypeus: 6. Color of mandibles in female: basal half black; apical half pale brown. Mandibular teeth in female: teeth of equal size. Sculpture of ventral gena anterior to genal carina: row of shallow areolae with reduced ridges between cells. Sculpture of ventral gena posterior to genal carina: areolate, irregularly rugose. Legs: Shape of anteclypeus: striplike, straight to slightly convex. Color of legs: coxae and femora dark brown, trochanters, tibia and tarsi yellowishbrown. Mesosoma: Sculpture of dorsal pronotum: areolate. Color of setae on the dorsal mesosoma: white. Sculpture of medial mesoscutum: areolate. Sculpture of lateral mesoscutum: same as medial mesoscutum with a subtle confusion of sculptural elements, areolate. Notaulus in female: absent. Parapsidal line: indistinguishable. Sculpture of scutellum: areolate. Median furrow on scutellum: present as a weak indentation. Posterior margin of scutellum: deeply notched. Outer projection of the propodeum: present as distinct corner or posteriorly projecting spine. Posterior margin of propodeal shelf between inner and outer propodeal projections in female: concave. Sculpture of ventral pronotum: foveate reticulate, becoming smooth at anterolateral corner. Anterior pronotal pit: small. Pronotal cervical sulcus: well defined by contiguous punctures. Mesepimeral sulcus: crenulate. Sculpture of femoral depression in female: transversely striate throughout, finely foveate throughout. Mesopleural carina: present as one or two carinae. Sculpture of ventral mesepisternum: with smooth area surrounded by small foveae. Pilosity of metapleural triangle in female: present as many short fine white setae. Sculpture of ventral area of metapleuron: foveate reticulate, with slightly appressed ridges. Metasoma: Submarginal ridge on T1: absent. Sublateral carina on T2: percurrent. Sculpture of T2–T3: reticulate rugose. Sculpture of T4: reticulate rugose. Sculpure of T5: reticulate rugose. Shape of subapical T 6 in female in dorsal view: short, width along anterior margin at least three times the length. Longitudinal medial keel on S1: absent. Sculpture of medial S 2 in female: punctate reticulate. Sculpture of medial S 3 in female: foveate, effaced to smooth. Sculpture of medial S 4 in female: effaced to smooth. Sculpture of medial S 5 in female: longitudinally strigose. Sculpture of lateral S 3 in female: punctate crenulate. Sculpture of lateral S 4 in female: punctate crenulate. Sculpture of lateral S 5 in female: punctate crenulate. Sculpture of marginal depression of S 2 in female: rugulose. Sculpture of marginal depression of S 3 in female: rugulose. Sculpture of marginal depression of S 4 in female: rugulose. Sculpture of marginal depression of S 5 in female: rugulose. Apical spine on S 6 in female: not extending beyond apex of T6 and not visible in dorsal view, extending beyond apex of T6 and visible in dorsal view. Diagnosis. Oreiscelio zulu appears to be limited in distribution to the eastern part of South Africa. It is similar in habitus to O. turneri, O. coracinus, and O. badius but lacks divergent carinae on the frons above the interantennal process and instead bears a dorsal flange. Among the continental species the dorsally enlarged interantennal process is similar to that of O. iommii, which is easily distinguishable from O. zulu by its entirely smooth mesopleuron. Etymology. Oreiscelio zulu is named for the Zulu people that inhabit the eastern region of South Africa where this species is found. Link to distribution map. 63 Material examined . Holotype, female: SOUTH AFRICA: South Africa, Kwa-Zulu-Natal Prov., Mbazwana, IV-1977, G. L. Prinsloo, OSUC 174708 (deposited in SANC). Paratypes: SOUTH AFRICA: 2 females, BMNH #790250 (OSUC 256828), BMNH #790252 (OSUC 256829).
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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 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.025 | 0.005 |
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".