Argentinomyia praeusta
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Syrphidae
- Genus: Argentinomyia
- Species: Argentinomyia praeusta
Visual Description
Argentinomyia praeusta is a hoverfly species. Observations of museum specimens from the TreeOfLife-200M dataset reveal characteristic features of the genus and family. The specimens exhibit a slender, elongated abdomen typical of many Syrphidae, often marked with distinct patterns. The thorax is robust, and the wings are clear with characteristic venation patterns common to the family. The head is dominated by large, holoptic eyes in males, which meet dorsally.[1]
Taxonomy and Classification
Argentinomyia praeusta was originally described by Hermann Loew in 1866 as Syrphus praeustus.[2] It is currently an accepted species within the genus Argentinomyia.[2]
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References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Syrphidae / Argentinomyia / praeusta constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- 1 2 Argentinomyia praeusta (Loew, 1866). GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/1533842. Accessed 2026-07-16.