Acrosticta rubida
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Ulidiidae
- Genus: Acrosticta
- Species: Acrosticta rubida
Visual Description
Acrosticta rubida is a small fly characterized by its distinct appearance. Observations from the TreeOfLife-200M dataset indicate that the species possesses a dark, often reddish-brown or blackish body coloration.[1] The wings typically exhibit a patterned or banded appearance, which is a common feature among members of the family Ulidiidae.[1]
Taxonomy and Classification
Acrosticta rubida was originally described by Hermann Loew in 1876 under the name Ulidia rubida.[2] It is currently recognized as an accepted species within the genus Acrosticta.[2]
Gallery
References
- 1 2 3 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Ulidiidae / Acrosticta / rubida constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- 1 2 Acrosticta rubida (Loew, 1876). GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/1523651. Accessed 2026-07-17.