Alloborborus
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Sphaeroceridae
- Genus: Alloborborus
Visual Description
Based on observations from the TreeOfLife-200M dataset, members of the genus Alloborborus exhibit typical sphaerocerid morphology.[1] These small flies are characterized by a compact body form and dark coloration.[1] Visible structures include well-developed wings and legs adapted for their environment.[1]
Biology and Distribution
The genus Alloborborus was described by Duda in 1923.[2] Within this genus, Alloborborus pallifrons (Fallén, 1820) is a well-documented species.[3] This species is known to develop in horse dung on pastures and is distributed across the temperate and northern regions of the West Palaearctic.[3]
Gallery
References
- 1 2 3 4 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Sphaeroceridae / Alloborborus constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Alloborborus Duda, 1923. GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/1589861. Accessed 2026-07-16.
- 1 2 Jindřích Roháček. The fauna of Sphaeroceridae (Diptera) in the Gemer area (Central Slovakia). Casopis Slezského Zemského Muzea (A). 2011. https://doi.org/10.2478/v10210-011-0004-9.