Amiota leucostoma
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Drosophilidae
- Genus: Amiota
- Species: Amiota leucostoma
Visual Description
Amiota leucostoma is characterized by the presence of distinctly milky white spots on the face, postpronotal lobe, and wing base [2]. Observations of specimens in the TreeOfLife-200M dataset confirm these diagnostic features, showing the characteristic white facial markings and general body structure typical of the genus [1]. The clypeus is dark brown to black [2].
General Information
Amiota leucostoma is the type species for the genus Amiota Loew, 1862 [2]. The genus is widely distributed, with significant diversity observed in regions such as the Hengduan Mountains in southwestern China, which serves as an overlapping area for Palaearctic and Oriental faunas [2].
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References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Drosophilidae / Amiota / leucostoma constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- 1 2 3 4 Wenxia Zhang; Hongwei Chen. The genus Amiota (Diptera: Drosophilidae) from Hengduan Mountains, southwestern China. European Journal of Entomology. 2006. https://doi.org/10.14411/eje.2006.062.