Adoxomyia
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Stratiomyidae
- Genus: Adoxomyia
Visual Description
Adults of the genus Adoxomyia are generally characterized by a black body.[2] Sexual dimorphism is evident in the eyes: males possess contiguous eyes, whereas females have eyes separated by a wide frons.[2] The antennae are a key diagnostic feature, with a flagellum composed of eight flagellomeres, which often exhibit variation in thickness, color, and arrangement between sexes and across species.[2] Observations from the TreeOfLife-200M dataset confirm the presence of these general morphological traits in various species within the genus.[1]
Biology and Distribution
Adoxomyia is a genus within the subfamily Clitellariinae, containing over 40 described species worldwide, with 20 species recognized in the Palearctic region.[2] Species identification often relies on male genital morphology, particularly the structure of the synsternum's median process and the shape of the dististylus.[2]
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References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Stratiomyidae / Adoxomyia 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 Turgay Üstüner. New Species of Adoxomyia (Kertész, 1907) (Diptera: Stratiomyidae) from Turkey. Journal of the Entomological Research Society. 2021. https://doi.org/10.51963/jers.v23i1.2030.