Allobaccha picta
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Syrphidae
- Genus: Allobaccha
- Species: Allobaccha picta
Visual Description
Allobaccha picta is a species of hoverfly within the family Syrphidae. While specific morphological traits are difficult to resolve from available dataset imagery, the species is recognized as part of the Afrotropical hoverfly fauna.[1]
Taxonomic Status and Research
Allobaccha picta (Wiedemann, 1830) is an accepted species name.[2] Research into the taxonomy of Afrotropical Syrphidae has utilized DNA barcoding (COI gene) to improve identification accuracy, as this group has historically been challenging to identify due to a lack of comprehensive keys and limited revisions.[3] Genetic data for this species is available through public databases such as NCBI.[4]
Gallery
References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Syrphidae / Allobaccha / picta constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Allobaccha picta (Wiedemann, 1830). GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/1537039. Accessed 2026-07-16.
- ↑ Kurt Jordaens; Georg Goergen; Massimiliano Virgilio; Thierry Backeljau; Audrey Vokaer; Marc De Meyer. DNA Barcoding to Improve the Taxonomy of the Afrotropical Hoverflies (Insecta: Diptera: Syrphidae). PLoS ONE. 2015. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0140264.
- ↑ Allobaccha picta. NCBI Nucleotide. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/?term=txid1740186[organism:exp]. Accessed 2026-07-15.