Allophorocera
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Tachinidae
- Genus: Allophorocera
Visual Description
Based on observations of specimens in the TreeOfLife-200M dataset, members of the genus Allophorocera exhibit typical tachinid morphology.[1] They are robust, bristly flies characterized by a distinct set of macrochaetae (large bristles) on the thorax and abdomen, which are diagnostic features of the family Tachinidae. The body coloration often includes shades of brown, grey, or ferruginous, particularly in species like A. ferruginea. The wings are typically clear or slightly smoky, with characteristic venation patterns common to the subfamily Exoristinae.
Biology and Distribution
The genus Allophorocera is known to occur in the Northern Hemisphere, with records from Europe, Asia, and North America.[2] In Northern Europe, the genus is represented by species such as Allophorocera ferruginea (Meigen, 1824) and Allophorocera lapponica Wood, 1974.[3] These species have been successfully characterized using DNA barcoding of the 658 bp COI region.[3]
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References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Tachinidae / Allophorocera constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Allophorocera. Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allophorocera. Accessed 2026-07-15.
- 1 2 Jaakko Pohjoismäki; Jere Kahanpää; Marko Mutanen. DNA Barcodes for the Northern European Tachinid Flies (Diptera: Tachinidae). PLoS ONE. 2016. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0164933.