Anagonia
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Tachinidae
- Genus: Anagonia
Visual Description
Anagonia species are generally small flies, with a head width typically measuring less than 3.5 mm and always under 3.8 mm [2]. Observations of museum specimens in the TreeOfLife-200M dataset reveal a typical tachinid body form, characterized by dark coloration on the thorax and abdomen [1]. The abdomen often exhibits pale pollinosity on the third and fourth tergites, which is interrupted by dark sublateral triangles that may coalesce into broad apical bands [2].
Biology and Ecology
Anagonia is a genus of tachinid flies belonging to the Froggattimyia-Anagonia genus group [2]. These flies are parasitoids of leaf-eating insect larvae, specifically targeting beetles in the families Chrysomelidae and Curculionidae [2], [3].
The genus is taxonomically complex and exhibits significant variation, which complicates classification based on internal structures [2]. Species-level identification typically relies on features of the male terminalia, while females are often difficult to identify due to strong sexual dimorphism [2]. There are twenty-five recognized species within the genus [2].
Gallery
References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Tachinidae / Anagonia constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Donald H. Colless. The Froggattimyia-Anagonia genus group (Diptera: Tachinidae). Records of the Australian Museum. 2012. https://doi.org/10.3853/j.0067-1975.64.2012.1590.
- ↑ Anagonia. Global Biotic Interactions. https://www.globalbioticinteractions.org/?targetTaxon=Anagonia. Accessed 2026-07-16.