Apodicrania
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Phoridae
- Genus: Apodicrania
Visual Description
The genus Apodicrania belongs to the family Phoridae, a group of flies commonly known as scuttle flies. Due to the limitations of the available museum specimen imagery, specific morphological details such as wing venation patterns or precise setal arrangements cannot be resolved. The specimens generally exhibit the characteristic humpbacked appearance typical of many phorids, with a small head and a robust thorax.[1]
General Information
Apodicrania is a genus of flies within the family Phoridae, formally described by the entomologist Thomas Borgmeier in 1933.[2] As an accepted genus within this diverse family, it is recognized in taxonomic databases.[2] Genetic data for this genus is tracked in international repositories such as GenBank.[3]
Gallery
References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Phoridae / Apodicrania constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- 1 2 Apodicrania Borgmeier, 1933. GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/1545332. Accessed 2026-07-16.
- ↑ Apodicrania. NCBI Nucleotide. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/?term=txid712091[organism:exp]. Accessed 2026-07-15.