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However, the Solenopsis invicta has a high degree of interspecific similarity and often pose a great challenge in the accurate identification of insects.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>In order to distinguish closely related species of small insects, this study proposes a Double-stage Insect Recognition Model (DIRM) based on the synergistic localization of key anatomical sites. The model uses the object detection network to pinpoint and crop the key part regions of the target object, and then feed these regions into the classification network and fuse the centroid information, the Global Context Enhancer (GCE) module, and the adaptive synergistic mechanism to linearly synthesis the features of each part in order to efficiently and accurately identify morphologically similar ant species.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Experimental results demonstrate that this approach substantially improves the classification accuracy of morphologically similar ant species, achieving over 95% accuracy on the constructed Ant7C dataset. Compared with conventional single-stage deep learning classifiers, the proposed DIRM method exhibits greater robustness in handling small targets, complex backgrounds, and closely related species.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Discussion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Beyond its applicability to ant identification, the model holds potential for broader applications in the recognition of insects and ecological monitoring.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/fpls.2026.1854371","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,6,8]],"date-time":"2026-06-08T06:09:01Z","timestamp":1780898941000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Double-stage insect recognition model based on synergistic localization of key parts"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"17","author":[{"given":"Dongmei","family":"Chen","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Artificial Intelligence, Hangzhou Dianzi University","place":["Hangzhou, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yimiao","family":"Shi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Artificial Intelligence, Hangzhou Dianzi University","place":["Hangzhou, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Shaopeng","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Artificial Intelligence, Hangzhou Dianzi University","place":["Hangzhou, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jun","family":"Huang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Plant Protection and Microbiology, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences","place":["Hangzhou, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jingcheng","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Artificial Intelligence, Hangzhou Dianzi University","place":["Hangzhou, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,6,8]]},"reference":[{"key":"B1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"51","DOI":"10.20961\/yustisia.v6i1.11502","article-title":"Implementation of the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) in the regulation of the agreement on the application of sanitary and phytosanitary measures (SPS agreement) in the World Trade Organization (WTO): Notes to Indonesia","volume":"6","author":"Afriansyah","year":"2017","journal-title":"Yustisia"},{"key":"B2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"356","DOI":"10.3844\/ajabssp.2011.356.364","article-title":"Artificial neural networks based red palm weevil (Rynchophorus ferrugineous, Olivier) recognition system","volume":"6","author":"Al-Saqer","year":"2011","journal-title":"Am. 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