Arctoconopa obscuripes
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Limoniidae
- Genus: Arctoconopa
- Species: Arctoconopa obscuripes
Visual Description
Arctoconopa obscuripes is a small, delicate fly typical of the family Limoniidae. Observations of museum specimens from the TreeOfLife-200M dataset[1] reveal a slender body structure with long, thin legs. The wings are relatively long and narrow, exhibiting characteristic venation patterns typical of the genus. The overall coloration of the body is generally dark, consistent with the specific epithet obscuripes.
General Information
Arctoconopa obscuripes was originally described by J.W. Zetterstedt in 1851 as Erioptera obscuripes in his work Diptera Scandinaviae disposita et descipta.[2] It is currently recognized as an accepted species within the genus Arctoconopa.[2]
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References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Limoniidae / Arctoconopa / obscuripes constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- 1 2 Arctoconopa obscuripes (Zetterstedt, 1851). GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/1520909. Accessed 2026-07-16.