Americina adusta
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Scathophagidae
- Genus: Americina
- Species: Americina adusta
Visual Description
Americina adusta is a small fly belonging to the family Scathophagidae. Based on observations of specimens in the TreeOfLife-200M dataset, the species exhibits a typical dipteran body plan with a distinct head, thorax, and abdomen.[1] The body is generally slender, and the wings are clear with characteristic venation patterns typical of the family. The legs are relatively long and slender, often appearing brownish or yellowish in coloration.[1]
General Information
Americina adusta was described by the entomologist Hermann Loew in 1863.[2] It is an accepted species within the genus Americina.[2] Genetic data for this species is available in public databases such as GenBank.[3]
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References
- 1 2 3 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Scathophagidae / Americina / adusta constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- 1 2 Americina adusta (Loew, 1863). GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/1556173. Accessed 2026-07-16.
- ↑ Americina adusta. NCBI Nucleotide. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/?term=txid113162[organism:exp]. Accessed 2026-07-15.