Aciurina aplopappi
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Tephritidae
- Genus: Aciurina
- Species: Aciurina aplopappi
Visual Description
Based on observations from the TreeOfLife-200M dataset, Aciurina aplopappi exhibits typical tephritid morphology.[1] The flies possess patterned wings, a common trait in this family, and have a robust body structure.[1]
Biology and Ecology
Aciurina aplopappi was described by Coquillett in 1894.[2] It is a member of the family Tephritidae, a group of flies often referred to as fruit flies.[2]
Note: Literature regarding Aciurina aplopappi can sometimes be confused with an ichneumonid wasp of the same name (Aciurina aplopappi (Ashmead 1890)), which acts as a parasitoid of gall-inducing Aciurina flies.[3]
Gallery
References
- 1 2 3 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Tephritidae / Aciurina / aplopappi constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- 1 2 Aciurina aplopappi (Coquillett, 1894). GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/1625953. Accessed 2026-07-17.
- ↑ Quinlyn Baine; Emily E. Casares; Daniel W.W. Hughes; Vincent G. Martinson; Ellen O. Martinson. Arthropod communities associated with gall-inducing Aciurina bigeloviae and Aciurina trixa (Diptera: Tephritidae) in New Mexico. bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory). 2023. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.09.05.555642.