Apiocera braunsi
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Apioceridae
- Genus: Apiocera
- Species: Apiocera braunsi
Visual Description
Apiocera braunsi is a species of apiocerid fly. Based on observations from the TreeOfLife-200M dataset, individuals exhibit the characteristic elongated body form typical of the family Apioceridae.[1] The flies possess prominent, compound eyes and a slender abdomen that tapers towards the posterior.[1]
General Information
Apiocera braunsi was described by A.L. Melander in 1907, with the original description published in the Bulletin of the Wisconsin Natural History Society.[2] It is recognized as an accepted species within the genus Apiocera.[2] Research into the Afrotropical Apioceridae has utilized online taxonomic resources to integrate data regarding this species, including information on the deposition of its holotype.[3]
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References
- 1 2 3 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Apioceridae / Apiocera / braunsi constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- 1 2 Apiocera braunsi Melander, 1907. GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/1611644. Accessed 2026-07-14.
- ↑ Torsten Dikow; Donat Agosti. Utilizing online resources for taxonomy: a cybercatalog of Afrotropical apiocerid flies (Insecta: Diptera: Apioceridae). Biodiversity Data Journal. 2015. https://doi.org/10.3897/bdj.3.e5707.