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Broad character retention was separated from goal-specific selection: taxonomists may prespecify candidates from literature or experience, while data-driven selection remained inside training folds. In 20 \u00d7 five-fold nested cross-validation, feature-screened multinomial accuracy was 95.93% (balanced accuracy 94.71%); the all-character model reached 96.57%, showing that selection need not force parsimony when a compact pool is already informative. Leave-one-species-out tests rejected omitted E. chilanensis Chen, Hsieh, Chen, Chen &amp; Chang, 2021, E. olivacea Kato, 1927, and E. hoppo Matsumura, 1917 in 100%, 100%, and 92.0% of decisions, but E. alpina Chen, 2005 and E. varicolor Kato, 1926 only 21.1% and 35.0%. CART selected X49, X20, and X32 for a concise quantitative-key draft. 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