Apteromyia
Apteromyia is a genus of flies in the family Sphaeroceridae.[1]
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[2]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Sphaeroceridae
- Genus: Apteromyia
Ecology and Distribution
The genus includes Apteromyia claviventris (Strobl, 1909), which is a widespread Holarctic species.[3] These flies are primarily associated with leaf litter and cavernicolous (cave) habitats.[3]
Visual Description
Based on observations of specimens in the TreeOfLife-200M dataset, members of the genus Apteromyia are small, dark-bodied flies.[2] They exhibit typical sphaerocerid morphology, characterized by a compact body shape and reduced or modified wing structures in some species, though this trait varies.[2]
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References
- ↑ Apteromyia Vimmer, 1929. GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/1588712. Accessed 2026-07-16.
- 1 2 3 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Sphaeroceridae / Apteromyia constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- 1 2 Jindřích Roháček. The fauna of Sphaeroceridae (Diptera) in the Gemer area (Central Slovakia). Casopis Slezského Zemského Muzea (A). 2011. https://doi.org/10.2478/v10210-011-0004-9.