Acidogona melanura
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Tephritidae
- Genus: Acidogona
- Species: Acidogona melanura
Visual Description
Based on observations of museum specimens, Acidogona melanura exhibits a characteristic wing pattern that is not sexually dimorphic.[2] The scutellum is entirely microtrichose.[2] In females, the wing features relatively large hyaline spots, with the spot at the apex of vein R${2+3}$ typically extending to the posterior half of cell r${2+3}$.[2] Additionally, cell r$_{4+5}$ contains at most three hyaline spots distal to crossvein dm-cu.[2] These morphological traits are consistent with specimens documented in the TreeOfLife-200M dataset.[1]
Biology and Distribution
Acidogona melanura is a species of tephritid fruit fly.[3] It is known to breed in the flowers of Hieracium species (Asteraceae: Cichorieae).[2] The species was originally described by Hermann Loew in 1873 as Trypeta melanura.[3]
The distribution of A. melanura includes records from Alabama, Georgia, New York, and Quebec.[2] A specimen from Chihuahua, Mexico, has been noted as similar to A. melanura, though its specific identity remains uncertain.[2]
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References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Tephritidae / Acidogona / melanura 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 7 Allen L. Norrbom; Bruce D. Sutton; Gary J. Steck; José Monzón. New genera, species and host plant records of Nearctic and Neotropical Tephritidae (Diptera). Zootaxa. 2010. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2398.1.1.
- 1 2 Acidogona melanura (Loew, 1873). GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/1626426. Accessed 2026-07-17.