Acatopygia olivacea
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Therevidae
- Genus: Acatopygia
- Species: Acatopygia olivacea
Visual Description
Acatopygia olivacea is a slender, elongate fly characteristic of the genus Acatopygia [2]. Observations from the TreeOfLife-200M dataset indicate the species possesses an olive-green scutum [1]. The legs are brown [2].
Biology and Distribution
The genus Acatopygia is endemic to eastern Australia and is typically found in sandy, heath habitats [2]. Acatopygia olivacea is known from a disparate series of specimens collected in southern Queensland and northern New South Wales [2].
The species is distinguished from other members of the genus by the absence of silver velutum on the male abdomen and the presence of black, scale-like setae on male abdominal sternites 4–7 [2]. The male frons is wider than the ocellar tubercle, and the occiput possesses multiple, poorly defined rows of postocular setae [2].
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References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Therevidae / Acatopygia / olivacea constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Shaun L. Winterton. Revision of the Australian stiletto fly genus Acatopygia Kröber (Diptera: Therevidae: Agapophytinae). Zootaxa. 2007. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1405.1.3.