Afrocamilla bispinosa
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Camillidae
- Genus: Afrocamilla
- Species: Afrocamilla bispinosa
Visual Description
Afrocamilla bispinosa is a small fly characterized by a noticeably pale head and abdomen compared to other Nearctic species in the genus. The legs are entirely yellow. A diagnostic morphological feature is the presence of two well-developed anteroventral spines on the fore femur. Additionally, the apical scutellar marginal bristles are approximately two-thirds the length of the basal marginals.[2] These traits are consistent with observations of specimens in the TreeOfLife-200M dataset.[1]
Ecology and Distribution
Afrocamilla bispinosa is a Nearctic species, originally described in 1995 from San Dimas Canyon in southern California.[2] The species is believed to be associated with the nests of wood rats (Neotoma spp.), as it has been reared from such environments. This ecological association aligns with the broader biology of the family Camillidae, where immature stages typically develop in the feces found within the nests, burrows, or latrines of small mammals.[2]
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References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Camillidae / Afrocamilla / bispinosa constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- 1 2 3 David A. Barraclough; SCOTT J. FITZGERALD. A New Afrocamilla from Colorado, the Third Species of Camillidae (Diptera: Schizophora) from the United States. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie. 2001. https://doi.org/10.1163/22119434-99900053.