{ "model": { "rank": 2309, "code": "thing-q80066", "model_id": "vr.tr.anisoptera", "name": "Anisoptera", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a candidate dragonfly, assess its developmental and functional state, and choose evidence-supported observation or intervention.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.LIV", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q80066/", "tier": 2, "score": 109, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [], "aliasCount": 0, "merged": 0, "knownIn": 109, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q80066", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q80066", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T11:28:51Z", "providers": [ "Codex", "Grok" ], "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": 0.0376335, "turns": 3, "seconds": 141, "error": null }, "codex": { "seconds": 96.8, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.3\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a07b9e-aaff-7eb2-99c5-83cbf2826168\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: Anisoptera\nRegistry id: vr.tr.anisoptera\nPlane / domain: PHY / PHY.LIV\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry: (none)\n\nA V" } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q80066", "registryId": "vr.tr.anisoptera", "name": "Anisoptera", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "PHY.LIV" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q80066/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.anisoptera", "name": "Anisoptera", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a candidate dragonfly, assess its developmental and functional state, and choose evidence-supported observation or intervention.", "definition": "Anisoptera Selys, 1854 is the odonate clade of true dragonflies, treated as a suborder of Odonata on the World Odonata List, ITIS and Catalogue of Life, or as an infraorder of Epiprocta in some phylogenetic schemes, comprising about 3,100 extant predatory species whose adults have hindwings broader than the forewings and whose aquatic nymphs respire through an internal rectal branchial chamber rather than external caudal gills.", "scope_statement": "Provisionally interpret vr.tr.anisoptera as Anisoptera within Odonata, owning recognition and assessment of its organisms across life stages, with associated exuviae as evidence; the registry must confirm this interpretation because Anisoptera also names a plant genus. References: [British Dragonfly Society](https://british-dragonflies.org.uk/odonata/species-and-identification/) and [Kew](https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn%3Alsid%3Aipni.org%3Anames%3A14351-1/general-information).", "in_scope": [ "Evidence supporting assignment to Anisoptera and the narrowest defensible subordinate taxon", "Egg, larval, emerging and adult states, including associations with shed larval skins", "Stage-dependent morphology, sex assessment and visible functional condition", "Observed feeding, movement, mating and oviposition", "Connections to aquatic development sites, emergence supports and terrestrial activity areas", "Evidence and prerequisites for observation, sampling, handling or habitat-related intervention" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Anisoptera Korth., the plant genus in Dipterocarpaceae", "Damselflies and other neighbouring odonate taxa except as identification alternatives", "Complete species monographs and taxonomic revision of Odonata", "Whole wetland hydrology, chemistry and ecosystem management", "Population viability and regional conservation assessments beyond links to relevant assessments", "Laboratory assay procedures, collection administration and permitting systems" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "For an adult candidate, examine whether the hindwing base is broader than the forewing base; retain photographs and test the combination against an appropriate regional odonate key.", "Use resting wing posture only as supporting evidence: spread wings suggest a dragonfly but cannot alone exclude spreadwing damselflies.", "Record eye separation without making touching eyes mandatory; separated eyes must not automatically exclude a dragonfly candidate.", "For larvae, inspect the abdominal tip for damselfly-like caudal lamellae, recording whether damage could explain their absence. [British Dragonfly Society](https://british-dragonflies.org.uk/odonata/life-cycle-and-biology/)", "An extendable larval labium supports odonate identification, but does not alone distinguish Anisoptera from other Odonata. [British Dragonfly Society](https://british-dragonflies.org.uk/odonata/life-cycle-and-biology/)" ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Taxonomic determination", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Accepted taxon concept, authority, determination date, evidence and confidence", "why_it_matters": "Separates recognition of Anisoptera from an unsupported family or species assignment." }, { "name": "Developmental state", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Egg; larva; emerging adult; teneral adult; mature adult; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Determines which identification characters and condition assessments are applicable." }, { "name": "Evidence material", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Live organism; dead organism; exuvia; image; video; associated egg material", "why_it_matters": "Prevents treating a shed skin as a living larva or counting it as another adult." }, { "name": "Diagnostic morphology", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Wing-base shape, venation, eye separation, abdominal appendages, larval labium and abdominal-tip characters; each observed, obscured or damaged", "why_it_matters": "Makes the identification inspectable and distinguishes absent characters from unobservable ones." }, { "name": "Stage-specific dimensions", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Body length and, when applicable, hindwing length in mm; anatomical endpoints, method and uncertainty", "why_it_matters": "Supports comparison with identification keys without mixing incompatible measurements." }, { "name": "Sex determination", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Male; female; unresolved; with supporting anatomical evidence", "why_it_matters": "Supports interpretation of reproductive anatomy and behaviour without relying solely on colour." }, { "name": "Functional condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Observed wing integrity, locomotion, attachment, responsiveness and visible lesions; unassessed where appropriate", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes observed impairment from inferred injury or disease." }, { "name": "Development-site association", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Located at; ovipositing at; larva found in; emerging from; exuvia found beside; association uncertain", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes adult presence from evidence of local aquatic development." }, { "name": "Observation conditions", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Date and time, survey duration in minutes, air or water temperature in °C, and measured spatial uncertainty in m", "why_it_matters": "Provides context for activity, detectability and comparisons between visits." } ], "affordances": [ "Document diagnostic views and request expert determination when characters do not support a narrower identification.", "Assess developmental state and visible functional condition before proposing handling.", "Link larvae, emergence observations and exuviae to a candidate development site while retaining association uncertainty.", "Record feeding, tandem formation, mating or oviposition as separate observed events.", "Plan repeat surveys using life stage, local season, weather and earlier observation effort.", "Evaluate whether sampling, relocation or changes to emergence vegetation have sufficient biological justification and applicable authorization." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikipedia-dragonfly", "title": "Dragonfly", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonfly", "what_it_supports": "Definitional characters (unequal wings, rest posture, nymphal rectal gills), family list, species-count and biogeographic table, life-span and nymphal duration, altitude and desert-temperature figures, cultural and food uses, and the distinction from Zygoptera and Meganisoptera.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "itis-anisoptera", "title": "ITIS Report: Anisoptera Selys, 1854", "url": "https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=101594", "what_it_supports": "Valid suborder rank under Odonata, TSN 101594, author and year, English and French vernaculars, and the family children recognised by ITIS.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "world-odonata-list", "title": "World Odonata List", "url": "https://www.pugetsound.edu/puget-sound-museum-natural-history/biodiversity-resources/insects/dragonflies/world-odonata-list", "what_it_supports": "Working global checklist treating Anisoptera as a suborder beside Zygoptera and Anisozygoptera, family sequence under four superfamilies, and the April 2025 Odonata species total.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "wikidata-q80066", "title": "Anisoptera (Q80066)", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q80066", "what_it_supports": "Wikidata item for the insect suborder and crosswalks to ITIS TSN 101594, Catalogue of Life 9WLT3, Encyclopedia of Life 2762968, iNaturalist 47927, Fauna Europaea 11840 and BugGuide 191.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "ware-2025-isd", "title": "Odonata systematics: past, present, and future: a review of the phylogenetic works in Anisoptera (dragonflies)", "url": "https://academic.oup.com/isd/article/9/4/9/8232034", "what_it_supports": "Extant Anisoptera species count of 3123 (Paulson et al. 2024), placement of Anisoptera as sister to Epiophlebia within Epiprocta, and family-level phylogenetic summary including Aeshnidae body-size range.", "url_status": "blocked" }, { "id": "col-9wlt3", "title": "Catalogue of Life Checklist: Anisoptera Selys, 1854", "url": "http://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/9910/taxon/9WLT3", "what_it_supports": "Accepted-suborder status, CoL identifier 9WLT3, and statistics of 11 families, 448 genera and 3,105 species sourced from the World Odonata List.", "url_status": "blocked" }, { "id": "wikipedia-anisoptera-plant", "title": "Anisoptera (plant)", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anisoptera_(plant)", "what_it_supports": "Homonymous dipterocarp tree genus Anisoptera Korth. (ten Asian species; Wikidata Q2850145), which must not be merged with the insect taxon.", "url_status": "live" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "anisoptera-recognition", "name": "Anisoptera recognition", "description": "Establish what taxon the record means and which observed characters support membership.", "rationale": "The registry name is ambiguous, and identification must work with adults, larvae and incomplete evidence.", "layers": [ { "id": "taxon-concept", "name": "Taxon concept", "description": "Bind the registry entry and individual determination to explicit biological concepts.", "findings": [ { "id": "intended-anisoptera", "name": "Intended Anisoptera", "description": "Record evidence that the registry denotes the odonate group and identify the taxonomic authority used.", "questions": [ { "text": "What registry provenance establishes that this entry denotes dragonflies rather than the plant genus?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "intended-anisoptera-q01" }, { "text": "Which taxonomic treatment defines membership and the boundary with neighbouring odonate groups?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "intended-anisoptera-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "stage-specific-diagnosis", "name": "Stage-specific diagnosis", "description": "Evaluate diagnostic anatomy using evidence appropriate to the observed material.", "findings": [ { "id": "supported-identification", "name": "Supported identification", "description": "Retain visible characters, alternative identifications, key provenance and the narrowest supported determination.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which wing, eye, appendage or larval characters are actually visible, and which are obscured or damaged?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "supported-identification-q01" }, { "text": "What stage-appropriate regional key or expert determination supports excluding damselflies and other alternatives?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "supported-identification-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "development-and-emergence", "name": "Development and emergence", "description": "Represent aquatic development and the transition to a winged adult without assuming species-specific timing.", "rationale": "The same organism requires different interpretation during larval life, emergence and adult maturation.", "layers": [ { "id": "developmental-position", "name": "Developmental position", "description": "Separate life stage from inferred age, instar and reproductive maturity.", "findings": [ { "id": "stage-and-maturity-evidence", "name": "Stage and maturity evidence", "description": "Record the observed stage and evidence for finer maturity assignments; leave unsupported age estimates unresolved.", "questions": [ { "text": "What anatomical or directly observed developmental evidence supports the assigned stage?", "kind": "definition", "id": "stage-and-maturity-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Can instar or adult maturity be determined for this taxon, or must it remain unresolved?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "stage-and-maturity-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "emergence-association", "name": "Emergence association", "description": "Connect an emergence event, support surface and shed skin when evidence permits.", "findings": [ { "id": "emergence-outcome", "name": "Emergence outcome", "description": "Record progress and outcome of the final larval moult and the strength of any adult-exuvia association. [British Dragonfly Society](https://british-dragonflies.org.uk/odonata/life-cycle-and-biology/)", "questions": [ { "text": "Was emergence observed continuously, and what supports linking this adult to this exuvia?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "emergence-outcome-q01" }, { "text": "Did emergence progress to wing expansion and departure, remain ongoing, or show an observed failure?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "emergence-outcome-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-activity", "name": "Condition and activity", "description": "Assess what the organism can currently do and what its behaviour actually demonstrates.", "rationale": "Flight inactivity, immature appearance and reproductive behaviour require different interpretations.", "layers": [ { "id": "functional-capacity", "name": "Functional capacity", "description": "Assess visible integrity and performance in the context of stage and observation conditions.", "findings": [ { "id": "observed-impairment", "name": "Observed impairment", "description": "Separate damaged structures and demonstrated functional limitations from inactivity with an unknown cause.", "questions": [ { "text": "What wing, leg or abdominal damage is visible, and what movement or attachment ability was observed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "observed-impairment-q01" }, { "text": "Could developmental state or observation conditions explain inactivity without establishing injury?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "observed-impairment-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "feeding-and-reproduction", "name": "Feeding and reproduction", "description": "Describe predatory and reproductive events without inferring outcomes that were not observed.", "findings": [ { "id": "behavioural-event-evidence", "name": "Behavioural event evidence", "description": "Keep pursuit, prey capture, tandem formation, mating and oviposition distinguishable.", "questions": [ { "text": "What observed sequence supports classifying the event as feeding, mating or oviposition?", "kind": "definition", "id": "behavioural-event-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Which participants, prey or deposition substrates can be identified, and with what uncertainty?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "behavioural-event-evidence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "habitat-and-local-development", "name": "Habitat and local development", "description": "Connect observations to developmental habitat and assess evidence of local breeding.", "rationale": "A flying adult at a waterbody does not by itself establish successful development there.", "layers": [ { "id": "aquatic-and-emergence-context", "name": "Aquatic and emergence context", "description": "Record the particular waterbody, microhabitat and emergence support associated with the organism.", "findings": [ { "id": "developmental-microhabitat", "name": "Developmental microhabitat", "description": "Describe observed substrate, vegetation, water conditions and access to emergence supports without assigning universal suitability thresholds.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where was the larva or exuvia found relative to water, substrate, vegetation and possible emergence supports?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "developmental-microhabitat-q01" }, { "text": "Which habitat requirements are supported for the identified taxon and stage rather than assumed for all dragonflies?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "developmental-microhabitat-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "residency-and-detectability", "name": "Residency and detectability", "description": "Distinguish site use, attempted reproduction and evidence of completed local development.", "findings": [ { "id": "local-development-evidence", "name": "Local development evidence", "description": "Evaluate adult sightings, larvae, oviposition and emergence evidence separately, retaining survey effort and repeat-visit context.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the evidence establish adult presence, reproductive activity, larval occupancy or completed emergence?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "local-development-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What survey timing, duration, weather and life-stage coverage constrain conclusions from non-detection?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "local-development-evidence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observation-and-intervention", "name": "Observation and intervention", "description": "Select the next observation or action using identification uncertainty, developmental vulnerability and site context.", "rationale": "Obtaining a better identification or changing waterside habitat can affect larvae and emerging adults.", "layers": [ { "id": "diagnostic-observation", "name": "Diagnostic observation", "description": "Choose evidence collection that resolves a specific identification or state question.", "findings": [ { "id": "next-useful-observation", "name": "Next useful observation", "description": "Specify the additional view, measurement or expert review needed and whether it requires disturbance.", "questions": [ { "text": "Would a dorsal wing view, lateral body view, abdominal-tip detail or exuvia examination resolve the uncertainty?", "kind": "action", "id": "next-useful-observation-q01" }, { "text": "Can the required evidence be obtained without disturbing emergence or capturing the organism?", "kind": "action", "id": "next-useful-observation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "intervention-prerequisites", "name": "Intervention prerequisites", "description": "Assess handling, sampling, relocation and habitat work against the actual organism and proposed action.", "findings": [ { "id": "stage-sensitive-action-decision", "name": "Stage-sensitive action decision", "description": "Record the intervention purpose, expected effect, applicable permissions and unresolved biological dependencies.", "questions": [ { "text": "How could the proposed action affect this larva, emerging adult, oviposition substrate or emergence support?", "kind": "action", "id": "stage-sensitive-action-decision-q01" }, { "text": "What taxon-specific evidence, local authorization and outcome monitoring are required before proceeding?", "kind": "action", "id": "stage-sensitive-action-decision-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Aeshnidae (hawkers or darners)", "Gomphidae (clubtails)", "Libellulidae (skimmers)", "Corduliidae (emeralds)", "Cordulegastridae (spiketails or biddies)", "Petaluridae (petaltails)", "Macromiidae (cruisers)", "Synthemistidae (tigertails)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of Anisoptera this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "Wikidata", "value_or_pattern": "Q80066", "note": "Insect suborder; do not use Q2850145, which is the dipterocarp genus." }, { "scheme": "ITIS TSN", "value_or_pattern": "101594", "note": "Anisoptera Selys, 1854, valid suborder of Odonata." }, { "scheme": "Catalogue of Life", "value_or_pattern": "9WLT3", "note": "Accepted suborder; species counts drawn from the World Odonata List." }, { "scheme": "Encyclopedia of Life", "value_or_pattern": "2762968", "note": "EOL page for dragonflies / Anisoptera." }, { "scheme": "iNaturalist taxon", "value_or_pattern": "47927", "note": "Citizen-science taxon id for the insect clade." }, { "scheme": "Fauna Europaea", "value_or_pattern": "11840", "note": "European fauna identifier recorded on Wikidata." }, { "scheme": "BugGuide taxon", "value_or_pattern": "191", "note": "North American identification resource taxon id." }, { "scheme": "Zoological name", "value_or_pattern": "Anisoptera Selys, 1854", "note": "Authorship as given by ITIS and Catalogue of Life; rank is suborder or infraorder depending on the authority." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of Anisoptera this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature) - governs availability and priority of the zoological name Anisoptera Selys, 1854.", "World Odonata List (Puget Sound Museum of Natural History / OdonataCentral; Paulson and co-editors) - de facto global working checklist, treating Anisoptera as a suborder and listing accepted species.", "Dijkstra, Bechly, Bybee and others, 2013, The classification and diversity of dragonflies and damselflies (Odonata), Zootaxa 3703 - reference classification cited by the World Odonata List." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of Anisoptera this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Field identification and wetland survey of adults, larvae and exuviae, including citizen-science recording against checklists such as the World Odonata List.", "Aquatic nymphs occupy standing or running fresh waters and are sampled as part of freshwater invertebrate assemblages; larger nymphs take tadpoles and small fish.", "Adults are aerial predators that hunt other insects, often over or near water, and some species (notably Pantala flavescens) form long-distance migratory aggregations.", "Caught for food in Indonesia; used in traditional medicine in Japan and China.", "Appear as cultural motifs (pottery, jewellery, Japanese tombo symbolism) and as a common subject of natural-history photography." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Anisoptera this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "extant species richness", "typical_range": "about 3100-3123", "unit": "species" }, { "quantity": "adult lifespan", "typical_range": "a few days to about 10 weeks; most species about 5 weeks or less", "unit": "weeks" }, { "quantity": "nymphal (naiad) duration", "typical_range": "months in many species, up to 5 years in some", "unit": "years" }, { "quantity": "ommatidia per compound eye", "typical_range": "up to about 22650-23890 in large species (Aeshna interrupta, Petalura gigantea); Wikipedia cites nearly 24000", "unit": "count" }, { "quantity": "adult body length (Aeshnidae, a typical large-bodied family)", "typical_range": "about 6-9", "unit": "cm" }, { "quantity": "altitudinal limit", "typical_range": "to about 3700 (Aeshna in the Pamirs)", "unit": "m" }, { "quantity": "shade temperature of activity in Mojave Desert populations", "typical_range": "18-45", "unit": "°C" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of Anisoptera this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Wetland drainage and other larval-habitat loss are the main recorded threat to populations worldwide.", "Most species require waters that are neither strongly eutrophic nor strongly acidic; nutrient enrichment, acidification or desiccation of pools can eliminate local nymphal cohorts.", "Freshly emerged (teneral) adults are pale, soft and flight-weak, and emergence at the water's edge is a high-mortality window.", "Larger nymphs prey on tadpoles and small fish, so they can be a predation pressure in small ponds and aquaculture.", "Adults cannot walk on their legs and are easily damaged by handling; wings held open at rest are vulnerable to tearing.", "The name is a homonym of a threatened dipterocarp tree genus, so un-disambiguated records can attach insect data to a plant taxon or the reverse." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Anisoptera this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "English vernaculars split the same families differently: Aeshnidae are hawkers in British usage and darners in North America; Libellulidae include skimmers, chasers and darters depending on region.", "World Odonata List and ITIS rank Anisoptera as a suborder of Odonata; Wikipedia and several phylogenetic papers rank it as an infraorder of Epiprocta, with Epiophlebia (Anisozygoptera) as sister.", "Species richness is highest in the tropics (especially Indomalaya and the Neotropics for Gomphidae and Libellulidae); temperate faunas are much smaller, and the group is absent as a breeding fauna from Antarctica and Iceland.", "Habitat practice splits by family: Gomphidae are largely running-water taxa, Libellulidae largely still-water taxa.", "Cultural reading differs: Japan treats dragonflies as emblems of courage and happiness; much European folklore treats them as sinister.", "French uses libellules for the group; iNaturalist also records the English vernacular mosquito hawks." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Anisoptera this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Zygoptera (damselflies)", "difference": "Adult Anisoptera hold the wings open and have hindwings broader than the forewings; most Zygoptera fold similar-shaped wings over the abdomen and have widely separated eyes. Anisopteran nymphs lack the three external caudal lamellae of zygopteran nymphs and instead pump water through an internal rectal gill chamber." }, { "name": "Epiophlebia / Anisozygoptera", "difference": "Extant sister group to Anisoptera within Epiprocta (three living species). Adults mix damselfly-like and dragonfly-like characters, including separated eyes (shared with Gomphidae and Petaluridae, so eye contact alone does not diagnose Anisoptera). World Odonata List keeps Anisozygoptera as a separate suborder." }, { "name": "Meganisoptera (griffenflies, e.g. Meganeura)", "difference": "Carboniferous-Permian odonatopteran relatives, not crown Anisoptera; wingspans reached about 680-750 mm. True Anisoptera appear in the Early Jurassic Toarcian." }, { "name": "Anisoptera Korth. (Dipterocarpaceae)", "difference": "A plant genus of ten Southeast Asian trees whose name is a homonym. Separate by kingdom and identifier: insect Wikidata Q80066 / ITIS 101594 versus plant Wikidata Q2850145 / IPNI 14351-1." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Anisoptera this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does registry provenance confirm the odonate meaning of Anisoptera rather than the plant genus?", "Which taxonomic authority and treatment of neighbouring odonate lineages should define the model's global boundary?", "Which regional keys provide reliable adult, larval and exuvial diagnoses, including exceptions and damaged specimens?", "What species- and stage-specific evidence can distinguish ordinary inactivity or maturation from impairment requiring intervention?", "Which local evidence standards establish breeding or successful emergence, and which jurisdiction-specific rules govern sampling and habitat work?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 18, "questions": 28 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "organism", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a Anisoptera, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a candidate dragonfly, assess its developmental and functional state, and choose evidence-supported observation or intervention.", "characteristics": { "substance": "living", "origin": "natural", "agency": "autonomous", "mobility": "self-moving" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Described in 109 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is." ], "openQuestionsForResearch": [ "Which of the bundles below does a real task actually need, and which are ceremony?", "What does this thing have that the facets do not capture at all?", "Which neighbouring kind is most often confused with a Anisoptera, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "a living thing", "physicalCharacter": [ "Moves under its own power or of its own accord.", "Acts on its own behalf.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Recognised by diagnostic characters, and those differ by life stage - the young of many kinds are mistaken for other kinds entirely. A sighting is settled by characters, a photograph and a place, not by a name alone." ], "relatedModels": [], "standing": "Described in 109 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one Anisoptera from another, and a Anisoptera from things that resemble it.", "rationale": "Recognition comes before every other claim. Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.", "layers": [ { "id": "naming-and-identifiers", "name": "Names and identifiers", "description": "The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.", "findings": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases", "name": "Preferred name, aliases and local names", "description": "Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.", "questions": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the name of a Anisoptera, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the name of a Anisoptera, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a Anisoptera is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers", "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys", "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.", "questions": [ { "id": "stable-identifiers-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a Anisoptera, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a Anisoptera, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a Anisoptera is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-and-granularity", "name": "Classification and granularity", "description": "Where a Anisoptera sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.", "findings": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents", "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds", "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.", "questions": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a Anisoptera, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a Anisoptera, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a Anisoptera is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a Anisoptera from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Anisoptera, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a Anisoptera, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a Anisoptera is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "form-and-composition", "name": "Form, composition and condition", "description": "What a Anisoptera is made of, what shape and size it takes, and what state it is in.", "rationale": "A physical thing can be measured, and a model that cannot record its measurements cannot support any decision that depends on them.", "layers": [ { "id": "form-and-dimensions", "name": "Form and dimensions", "description": "Shape, size, mass and the ranges these take across examples.", "findings": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions", "name": "Measurable dimensions and their units", "description": "The quantities worth recording and the units they are recorded in.", "questions": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the dimensions of a Anisoptera, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the dimensions of a Anisoptera, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the dimensions of a Anisoptera is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "material-and-composition", "name": "Material and composition", "description": "Anatomy, parts and life stage.", "findings": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials", "name": "Parts and life stages", "description": "The parts of a Anisoptera and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a Anisoptera, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the composition of a Anisoptera, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the composition of a Anisoptera is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-integrity", "name": "Condition and integrity", "description": "Wear, damage, health and the difference between working and broken.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-assessment", "name": "Condition, damage and health", "description": "How the condition of a Anisoptera is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a Anisoptera, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the condition of a Anisoptera, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the condition of a Anisoptera is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "place-and-movement", "name": "Place and movement", "description": "Where a Anisoptera is, how it got there and where it may go (self-moving).", "rationale": "A thing that can move needs its position recorded with a time, or every later claim about it is about a place it has left.", "layers": [ { "id": "location-and-placement", "name": "Location and placement", "description": "Position, containment and the reference frame the position is given in.", "findings": [ { "id": "position-and-frame", "name": "Position, container and reference frame", "description": "Where a Anisoptera is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Anisoptera, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the location of a Anisoptera, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the location of a Anisoptera is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "movement-and-transfer", "name": "Movement and transfer", "description": "How a Anisoptera moves on its own.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-events", "name": "Movement events and constraints", "description": "What counts as a movement, what records it and what limits it.", "questions": [ { "id": "movement-events-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the movement of a Anisoptera, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the movement of a Anisoptera, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the movement of a Anisoptera is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a Anisoptera passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a Anisoptera between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Anisoptera, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a Anisoptera, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a Anisoptera is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a Anisoptera, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Anisoptera is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a Anisoptera, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a Anisoptera, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a Anisoptera is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted 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"Which taxonomic authority is being followed, and what would a competing authority say?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "field-identification", "name": "Field identification", "description": "The characters that separate Anisoptera from what it is confused with.", "findings": [ { "id": "diagnostic-characters", "name": "Diagnostic characters and confusable kinds", "description": "Features that settle an identification, and those that only suggest it.", "questions": [ { "id": "diagnostic-characters-q01", "text": "Which observable characters distinguish Anisoptera from its closest look-alikes, and at which life stage are they visible?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "diagnostic-characters-q02", "text": "What evidence is enough to record an identification as confirmed rather than provisional?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "life-cycle-and-condition", "name": "Life stages, condition and behaviour", "description": "What Anisoptera does over its life and how its state is judged.", "rationale": "Stage and condition change what may be done - handled, treated, harvested, left alone - and both are observations with a time.", "layers": [ { "id": "stages-and-reproduction", "name": "Stages and reproduction", "description": "Development from origin to death, including forms that look like different animals.", "findings": [ { "id": "life-stages", "name": "Life stages and their marks", "description": "The stages worth recording and what tells them apart.", "questions": [ { "id": "life-stages-q01", "text": "What stages does Anisoptera pass through, and what observable change marks each transition?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "life-stages-q02", "text": "Which stages are so unlike the adult that they are mistaken for another kind?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "health-and-condition", "name": "Health and condition", "description": "How condition is assessed and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-assessment", "name": "Condition assessment", "description": "Signs of health, injury and stress, and who is competent to judge them.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "How is the condition of Anisoptera judged, on what scale, and by whom?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q02", "text": "What condition obliges an agent to act, and what act is permitted to whom?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "range-and-status", "name": "Habitat, range and conservation status", "description": "Where Anisoptera lives and how threatened it is.", "rationale": "Range and status govern what is lawful, and both are assessments with an assessor and a year rather than facts of nature.", "layers": [ { "id": "habitat-and-range", "name": "Habitat and range", "description": "Native range, introductions and the habitat it needs.", "findings": [ { "id": "range-record", "name": "Range, introductions and habitat", "description": "What to record about where it is found and how it got there.", "questions": [ { "id": "range-record-q01", "text": "What is the native range of Anisoptera, where has it been introduced, and what habitat does it require?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "range-record-q02", "text": "What distinguishes a native record from an introduced or vagrant one?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "protection-status", "name": "Protection and legal status", "description": "Conservation assessments and the rules that follow from them.", "findings": [ { "id": "status-and-rules", "name": "Conservation status and legal consequence", "description": "The assessment, its date, and what it forbids or requires where.", "questions": [ { "id": "status-and-rules-q01", "text": "What conservation status does Anisoptera hold, under which assessment and year?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "status-and-rules-q02", "text": "What does that status forbid or require of an agent, and in which jurisdiction?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a Anisoptera came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance and confidence", "description": "The authority behind each claim about a Anisoptera and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Anisoptera, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a Anisoptera, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a Anisoptera is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a Anisoptera is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Anisoptera, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a Anisoptera, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a Anisoptera is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 8, "layers": 17, "findings": 19, "questions": 51 } } } }