Aphamartania frauenfeldi
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Asilidae
- Genus: Aphamartania
- Species: Aphamartania frauenfeldi
Description
Aphamartania frauenfeldi is a species of robber fly in the family Asilidae, described by Schiner in 1866.[2] The species Cophura panamensis Curran (1931) has been placed in synonymy with A. frauenfeldi.[3]
The species can be distinguished from the related Aphamartania knutsoni by its shiny black abdomen, whereas A. knutsoni has an entirely yellow abdomen. The male genitalia of A. frauenfeldi are noted to be very similar to those of A. knutsoni.[3]
Visual Description
Due to the unavailability of high-resolution imagery for this species, a detailed morphological description based on visual inspection cannot be provided at this time.
Gallery
References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Asilidae / Aphamartania / frauenfeldi constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Aphamartania frauenfeldi Schiner, 1866. GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/1655377. Accessed 2026-07-14.
- 1 2 Nelson Papavero. Uma nova espécie de Aphamartania Schiner do Panamá (Diptera, Asilidae). Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia. 1971. https://doi.org/10.11606/0031-1049.1971.24.p53-56.