Aptilotus concavus
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Sphaeroceridae
- Genus: Aptilotus
- Species: Aptilotus concavus
Visual Description
Aptilotus concavus is a small fly belonging to the family Sphaeroceridae. Observations from the TreeOfLife-200M dataset indicate that members of this species exhibit the characteristic body plan of the family, which typically includes a compact, often dark-colored body.[1] Due to the limitations of the available photographic material, finer morphological details such as specific wing venation patterns or setal arrangements cannot be definitively resolved.
General Information
Aptilotus concavus was originally described by Spuler in 1925 under the name Leptocera concavus.[2] It is currently recognized as an accepted species within the genus Aptilotus.[2]
Gallery
References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Sphaeroceridae / Aptilotus / concavus constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- 1 2 Aptilotus concavus (Spuler, 1925). GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/5080593. Accessed 2026-07-16.