Aciurina bigeloviae
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 bigeloviae
Visual Description
Aciurina bigeloviae is a small fly characterized by distinct patterns on its wings. Observations from the TreeOfLife-200M dataset show that the wings typically feature dark, mottled, or banded pigmentation patterns, which are common in the family Tephritidae.[1] The body is generally compact, with a structure typical of gall-inducing tephritids.
Ecology and Biology
Aciurina bigeloviae (Cockerell, 1890) is a gall-inducing tephritid fly native to western North America.[2] It utilizes plants in the family Asteraceae as hosts.[2]
Taxonomic identification within the genus Aciurina has historically been challenging due to a reliance on wing pattern variations, which may not always be sufficient for distinguishing between closely related species.[2] Gall morphology is considered a critical trait for accurate identification in this group.[2]
Gallery
References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Tephritidae / Aciurina / bigeloviae constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- 1 2 3 4 Quinlyn Baine; Branden White; Vincent G. Martinson; Ellen O. Martinson. Discovery of a new gall-inducing species, Aciurina luminaria (Insecta, Diptera, Tephritidae) via multi-trait integrative taxonomy. ZooKeys. 2024. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1214.130171.