Aenigmatistes
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Phoridae
- Genus: Aenigmatistes
General Information
Aenigmatistes is a genus of flies within the family Phoridae, first described by Shelford in 1908.[2]
Visual Description
The genus Aenigmatistes is represented in the TreeOfLife-200M dataset by various museum specimens.[1] Due to the limitations of the available imagery, detailed morphological traits such as specific wing venation patterns or fine setal arrangements cannot be resolved. The specimens generally exhibit the characteristic body form of Phoridae, which typically includes a humpbacked appearance due to the enlarged thorax.
Gallery
References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Phoridae / Aenigmatistes constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Aenigmatistes Shelford, 1908. GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/1548826. Accessed 2026-07-16.