Acerocnema merga
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Scathophagidae
- Genus: Acerocnema
- Species: Acerocnema merga
Description
Acerocnema merga is a species of dung fly in the family Scathophagidae. It was formally described by Marie-Eve Chagnon and Bradley J. Sinclair in 2021 as part of their revision of the Nearctic species of the genus Acerocnema [4].
Visual Description
The available images from the TreeOfLife-200M dataset for Acerocnema merga depict museum specimens of this species.[1] Due to the nature of these images, fine morphological details are difficult to resolve; however, the specimens exhibit the general body form characteristic of scathophagid flies, with a robust thorax and abdomen.
Gallery
References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Scathophagidae / Acerocnema / merga constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.