Apocephalus pergandei
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Phoridae
- Genus: Apocephalus
- Species: Apocephalus pergandei
Visual Description
Based on observations from the TreeOfLife-200M dataset, Apocephalus pergandei exhibits the characteristic morphology of a phorid fly.[1] The specimens display a compact body form typical of the family, with a distinctively humped thorax. The wings are well-developed, and the head features prominent eyes. Due to the nature of the museum specimen imagery, finer diagnostic traits such as specific setal patterns or precise wing venation are not clearly resolvable.[1]
Biology and Classification
Apocephalus pergandei was described by Coquillett in 1901.[2] It is a member of the family Phoridae, a group of flies often known as hump-backed flies or ant-decapitating flies.[3] The species is recognized as an accepted name within the genus Apocephalus.[2]
Gallery
References
- 1 2 3 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Phoridae / Apocephalus / pergandei constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- 1 2 Apocephalus pergandei Coquillett, 1901. GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/1545450. Accessed 2026-07-16.
- ↑ Apocephalus pergandei. NCBI Nucleotide. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/?term=txid1890545[organism:exp]. Accessed 2026-07-15.