Asemosyrphus
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Syrphidae
- Genus: Asemosyrphus
Visual Description
Members of the genus Asemosyrphus are hoverflies that exhibit typical syrphid morphology. Observations from the TreeOfLife-200M dataset reveal that these insects possess a robust, bee-like body form.[1] Key visible traits include:
- Abdominal Patterning: The abdomen often features distinct, longitudinal or transverse markings, which can appear as stripes or bands of contrasting color against a darker background.
- Wing Venation: The wings are generally clear and show the characteristic venation patterns of the family Syrphidae, including the presence of a "spurious vein."
- Head Structure: The head is dominated by large, holoptic or dichoptic eyes (depending on sex) and short, inconspicuous antennae.
Gallery
References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Syrphidae / Asemosyrphus constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.