Aphoebantus
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Bombyliidae
- Genus: Aphoebantus
Visual Description
Members of the genus Aphoebantus are bee flies characterized by their generally dark, often black, body coloration. Observations from the TreeOfLife-200M dataset indicate that these flies exhibit a robust, hairy appearance typical of many Bombyliidae.[1] Morphological details can vary significantly between sexes; for example, in Aphoebantus dentei, males exhibit black facial hair, whereas females possess yellow hair covering the face and lower frons.[2] The thorax is often velvety black, and the wings may feature a dark brown shadow along the anterior margin.[2]
Gallery
References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Bombyliidae / Aphoebantus constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- 1 2 Maria A. V. D'Andretta; Messias Carrera. Resultados de uma expedição científica ao território do Acre – Diptera. Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia. 1952. https://doi.org/10.11606/0031-1049.1952.10p293-306.