Anomalochaeta
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Opomyzidae
- Genus: Anomalochaeta
Visual Description
Based on observations of specimens from the TreeOfLife-200M dataset, members of the genus Anomalochaeta are small flies characteristic of the family Opomyzidae.[1] They exhibit slender bodies with wings that often display distinct patterning, such as dark spots or infuscations, which are visible in available imagery.[1] The head and thorax typically feature prominent bristles (chaetae), consistent with the genus name.[1]
General Information
Anomalochaeta is a genus of flies in the family Opomyzidae.[2] The genus was described by the entomologist Richard Karl Hjalmar Frey in 1921.[2]
Gallery
References
- 1 2 3 4 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Opomyzidae / Anomalochaeta constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- 1 2 Anomalochaeta Frey, 1921. GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/1493863. Accessed 2026-07-16.