Anypodetus leucothrix
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Asilidae
- Genus: Anypodetus
- Species: Anypodetus leucothrix
Visual Description
Anypodetus leucothrix is a robber fly characterized by its predominantly apubescent (lacking dense hair or fuzz) pleura and scutum. The body is covered in whitish to yellowish setation. The wings are hyaline (clear/transparent) [3]. Observations of specimens in the TreeOfLife-200M dataset confirm these features, showing a slender body form typical of many Asilidae, with prominent, light-colored setae distributed across the thorax and abdomen, and clear, unpigmented wings [1].
Distribution and Ecology
The species is known from South Africa, with the type locality recorded in the Western Cape at the Gamka River, 40 km north of Prince Albert [3].
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References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Asilidae / Anypodetus / leucothrix constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.