Flaviellus consentaneus Smith & Skelley 2020, new combination
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Flaviellus consentaneus (LeConte, 1850), new combination Aphodius consentaneus LeConte 1850: 225. Aphodius (Nobius) consentaneus (LeConte): Schmidt 1913: 147. Melinopterus consentaneus (LeConte): Gordon and Skelley 2007: 323. Aphodius (Melinopterus) consentaneus (LeConte): Krell 2010: 16. Taxonomic Placement. Flaviellus consentaneus is a rarely collected species that is widespread in northcentral USA and the adjacent Canadian prairie provinces. It has characteristics that make taxonomic placement difficult. Gordon and Skelley (2007) remarked on this difficulty, compared it with Flaviellus subtruncatus (LeConte, 1878), and tentatively placed it in Melinopterus because it lacked some characteristics of more typical Flaviellus species. With questions regarding generic placement of the new species, we re-evaluated generic characters and placement of F. consentaneus. Table 1 provides the key characters used to classify F. consentaneus and the new species. Distribution. Gordon and Skelley (2007) cited this species from various localities in southern areas of the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba and from North Dakota, South Dakota, and Minnesota in the USA. They also cited “Northwest Territories: Abernethy” as a locality but Abernethy is in southern Saskatchewan—this record may have been based on specimens collected prior to 1905, when Saskatchewan was still considered to be part of the Northwest Territories. The records of this species from the states of Kansas, Missouri, and New Mexico in the USA are dubious and should be disregarded (see commentary in Gordon and Skelley 2007). The type locality for this species is the shores of Lake Superior, and the lectotype was either collected by J. L. LeConte during his 1848 expedition or acquired by LeConte from other collectors (LeConte (1850) stated that specimens from multiple sources originating from around Lake Superior were used for his descriptions).
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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) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 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 | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.010 | 0.003 |
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".