Achyrolimonia
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Limoniidae
- Genus: Achyrolimonia
Visual Description
Members of the genus Achyrolimonia are crane flies characterized by their distinct wing patterns. Observations from the TreeOfLife-200M dataset show that these insects possess wings with dark, prominent spots against a lighter or yellowish background.[1] The body is generally slender, typical of many Limoniidae, with long, delicate legs.[1]
Morphology and Ecology
The genus Achyrolimonia was established by Charles Paul Alexander in 1965.[2] Species within this genus exhibit specific morphological traits in their wing venation and male terminalia. For instance, in Achyrolimonia basispina, the distal margin of the discal cell is angulated, and the male terminalia feature an inner gonostylus with a long, narrow rostral prolongation armed with a single, powerful, straight subbasal spine.[3] In contrast, Achyrolimonia neonebulosa is distinguished by a symmetrical distal margin of the discal cell and a wide, unarmed rostral prolongation on the inner gonostylus.[3]
Ecologically, larvae of Achyrolimonia species are known to develop in mushrooms and rotten wood, such as that of asp (Populus) and alder (Alnus).[3]
Gallery
References
- 1 2 3 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Limoniidae / Achyrolimonia constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Achyrolimonia Alexander, 1965. GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/1513297. Accessed 2026-07-16.
- 1 2 3 Sigitas Podėnas; Hye-Woo Byun; Sam‐Kyu Kim. Limoniinae crane flies (Diptera: Limoniidae) new to Korea. Journal of Species Research. 2015. https://doi.org/10.12651/jsr.2015.4.2.061.