Aciurina trilitura
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 trilitura
Visual Description
Aciurina trilitura is a species of fruit fly within the family Tephritidae. Observations from the TreeOfLife-200M dataset indicate that these flies exhibit characteristic tephritid morphology, including patterned wings with distinct dark markings.[1] The body is typically robust, and the wing venation and pigmentation patterns are key diagnostic features for identification within the genus Aciurina.[1]
History and Classification
Aciurina trilitura was described by F.L. Blanc and R.H. Foote in 1961.[2] The original description was published in The Pan-Pacific Entomologist as part of a study on California Tephritidae.[2]
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References
- 1 2 3 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Tephritidae / Aciurina / trilitura constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- 1 2 Aciurina trilitura Blanc & Foote, 1961. GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/1625962. Accessed 2026-07-17.