Allodia pyxidiiformis
Allodia pyxidiiformis is a species of fungus gnat in the family Mycetophilidae. It was described by Zaitzev in 1983.[1]
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[2]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Mycetophilidae
- Genus: Allodia
- Species: Allodia pyxidiiformis
Visual Description
Based on observations from the TreeOfLife-200M dataset, Allodia pyxidiiformis exhibits the general body plan characteristic of the genus Allodia.[2] The specimens display slender, elongated bodies typical of fungus gnats, with delicate, membranous wings that extend beyond the abdomen. The thorax is arched, and the legs are long and thin, adapted for movement among fungal substrates. Due to the limitations of the available imagery, finer morphological details such as specific wing venation patterns or terminalia structures cannot be resolved.[2]
Biology and Distribution
The genus Allodia belongs to the tribe Exechiini and is sub-cosmopolitan, with its greatest diversity found in the Holarctic region.[3] Genetic data for Allodia pyxidiiformis is available through NCBI Nucleotide records.[4]
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References
- ↑ Allodia pyxidiiformis Zaitzev, 1983. GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/1612273. Accessed 2026-07-16.
- 1 2 3 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Mycetophilidae / Allodia / pyxidiiformis constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Trude Magnussen; Jostein Kjærandsen; Arild Johnsen; Geir Søli. Six new species of Afrotropical Allodia (Diptera: Mycetophilidae): DNA barcodes indicate recent diversification with a single origin. Zootaxa. 2018. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4407.3.1.
- ↑ Allodia pyxidiiformis. NCBI Nucleotide. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/?term=txid1749355[organism:exp]. Accessed 2026-07-15.