Amaurosoma pallidipes
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Scathophagidae
- Genus: Amaurosoma
- Species: Amaurosoma pallidipes
Visual Description
Amaurosoma pallidipes exhibits characteristic features of the family Scathophagidae. Observations of museum specimens reveal a body with a greyish, somewhat pruinose thorax and abdomen, contrasting with lighter, yellowish-brown legs. The wings are hyaline with distinct venation, showing a characteristic iridescent sheen under certain lighting conditions. The thorax is covered in numerous dark, prominent setae (bristles), which are also present on the legs and abdomen.[1]
Gallery
References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Scathophagidae / Amaurosoma / pallidipes constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.