Aciurina semilucida
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 semilucida
Visual Description
Aciurina semilucida is a species of fly within the family Tephritidae. Based on observations from the TreeOfLife-200M dataset, individuals exhibit characteristic tephritid features, including patterned wings.[1] The body is generally compact, and the wings display distinct dark markings or bands, which are common in this genus.[1]
Biology and Ecology
The genus Aciurina consists of gall-inducing flies that infest Asteraceae plants in western North America.[2] Taxonomic identification within this genus has historically been complicated by a reliance on wing pattern variations, which has led to confusion.[2] Integrative taxonomic approaches, which incorporate gall morphology, host plant ecology, wing morphometrics, and genomic data, are essential for accurate species delimitation in this group.[2]
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References
- 1 2 3 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Tephritidae / Aciurina / semilucida constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- 1 2 3 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.