Adapsilia
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Pyrgotidae
- Genus: Adapsilia
Visual Description
Members of the genus Adapsilia are flies that typically exhibit hyaline wings marked with brownish patterns [2]. Observations from the TreeOfLife-200M dataset indicate that these insects possess a robust, fly-like body form typical of the family Pyrgotidae, often with distinct abdominal segmentation and complex wing venation patterns [1].
General Information
Adapsilia Waga, 1842, is a genus within the family Pyrgotidae, a group of nocturnal, acalyptrate flies [2]. The larvae of these flies are known to be endoparasitoids of adult scarab beetles [2].
The genus is characterized by the presence of two pairs of scutellar setae and one to two pairs of dorsocentral setae [2]. Additionally, the femora lack a row of ventral short, spine-like setulae, and the oviscape does not have medioventral hooks at the apex [2].
Adapsilia is currently considered a heterogeneous assemblage of species, and phylogenetic studies suggest it may not be monophyletic [2]. Taxonomic uncertainty persists, with some species potentially belonging to other genera [2].
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References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Pyrgotidae / Adapsilia constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Sam‐Kyu Kim; Ho‐Yeon Han. Taxonomic Review of the Korean Pyrgotidae (Insecta: Diptera: Tephritoidea). Animal Systematics Evolution and Diversity. 2009. https://doi.org/10.5635/kjsz.2009.25.1.065.