Aciurina maculata
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 maculata
Visual Description
Aciurina maculata is a species of fruit fly within the family Tephritidae. Observations from the TreeOfLife-200M dataset indicate that individuals of this species exhibit characteristic tephritid morphology, including patterned wings and a robust body structure.[1]
Biology and Classification
Aciurina maculata was originally described as Aciura maculata by F.R. Cole in 1919.[2] It is recognized as an accepted species within the genus Aciurina.[2] Members of the family Tephritidae are commonly known as fruit flies, and many species in the genus Aciurina are known to be gall-inducers on their host plants.[3]
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References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Tephritidae / Aciurina / maculata constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- 1 2 Aciurina maculata (Cole, 1919). GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/1625947. Accessed 2026-07-17.
- ↑ 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.