Adenophora
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Phoridae
- Genus: Adenophora
Visual Description
The genus Adenophora belongs to the family Phoridae, a group of flies often characterized by their small size and distinct, hump-backed appearance. Based on observations from the TreeOfLife-200M dataset, members of this genus exhibit the typical phorid body plan, featuring a robust, arched thorax that gives them a hunched profile. The wings are generally clear with a reduced venation pattern, which is a diagnostic feature of many phorids. The legs are often well-developed, particularly the hind femora, which may be laterally compressed. Due to the small size of these specimens, finer morphological details such as specific setal patterns on the thorax or the exact structure of the wing veins are difficult to resolve without high-magnification microscopy.[1]
Gallery
References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Phoridae / Adenophora constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.