Aptilotus spatulatus
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 spatulatus
Visual Description
The species Aptilotus spatulatus is a member of the family Sphaeroceridae. While high-resolution morphological details are not available for direct observation from the provided dataset images, the specimens are consistent with the general appearance of small, dark-bodied flies typical of this family.[1]
Description
Aptilotus spatulatus was described by S.A. Marshall in 1983. It is a recognized species within the genus Aptilotus, which was the subject of a revision by Marshall covering North American species.[2]
Gallery
References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Sphaeroceridae / Aptilotus / spatulatus constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Aptilotus spatulatus Marshall, 1983. GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/5080604. Accessed 2026-07-16.