Actinodoria argentifrons
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Tachinidae
- Genus: Actinodoria
- Species: Actinodoria argentifrons
Visual Description
Based on observations from the TreeOfLife-200M dataset, Actinodoria argentifrons exhibits the characteristic morphology of a tachinid fly.[1] The specimens display a robust body structure typical of the family, with prominent bristles (macrochaetae) on the thorax and abdomen. The head features large, well-developed compound eyes and a distinctively shaped frons, which is consistent with the species name argentifrons (implying a silvery appearance of the frons). Due to the nature of the museum specimen images, finer morphological details such as specific wing venation patterns or exact chaetotaxy are difficult to resolve, but the overall habitus confirms its placement within the tribe Blondeliini.[2]
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References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Tachinidae / Actinodoria / argentifrons constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Actinodoria argentifrons. NCBI Nucleotide. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/?term=txid2797438[organism:exp]. Accessed 2026-07-15.