Aciurina maculata
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Tephritidae
- Genus: Aciurina
- Species: Aciurina maculata
Visual Description
Aciurina maculata is a species of fruit fly within the family Tephritidae. Observations from the TreeOfLife-200M dataset indicate that individuals of this species exhibit characteristic tephritid morphology, including patterned wings and a robust body structure.[1]
Biology and Classification
Aciurina maculata was originally described as Aciura maculata by F.R. Cole in 1919.[2] It is recognized as an accepted species within the genus Aciurina. Members of the family Tephritidae are commonly known as fruit flies, and many species in the genus Aciurina are known to be gall-inducers on their host plants.[3]
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References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Tephritidae / Aciurina / maculata constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Aciurina maculata (Cole, 1919). GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/1625947. Accessed 2026-07-17.
- ↑ Quinlyn Baine; Branden White; Vincent G. Martinson; Ellen O. Martinson. Discovery of a new gall-inducing species, Aciurina luminaria (Insecta, Diptera, Tephritidae) via multi-trait integrative taxonomy. ZooKeys. 2024. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1214.130171.