Allopiophila pectiniventris
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Piophilidae
- Genus: Allopiophila
- Species: Allopiophila pectiniventris
Visual Description
Allopiophila pectiniventris is a small fly characteristic of the family Piophilidae. Observations of specimens from the TreeOfLife-200M dataset reveal a generally dark, often black or dark-brown, body coloration.[1] The body is typically slender, with clear, membranous wings that are often held flat over the abdomen when at rest.[1]
General Information
Allopiophila pectiniventris was originally described by O. Duda in 1924 as Piophila pectiniventris.[2] It is an accepted species within the genus Allopiophila.[2]
Gallery
References
- 1 2 3 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Piophilidae / Allopiophila / pectiniventris constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- 1 2 Allopiophila pectiniventris (Duda, 1924). GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/1522377. Accessed 2026-07-16.