Aciurina semilucida
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 semilucida
Visual Description
Aciurina semilucida is a species of fly within the family Tephritidae. Based on observations from the TreeOfLife-200M dataset, individuals exhibit characteristic tephritid features, including patterned wings.[1] The body is generally compact, and the wings display distinct dark markings or bands, which are common in this genus.[1]
Biology and Ecology
The genus Aciurina consists of gall-inducing flies that infest Asteraceae plants in western North America.[2] Taxonomic identification within this genus has historically been complicated by a reliance on wing pattern variations, which has led to confusion. Integrative taxonomic approaches, which incorporate gall morphology, host plant ecology, wing morphometrics, and genomic data, are essential for accurate species delimitation in this group.
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References
- 1 2 3 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Tephritidae / Aciurina / semilucida constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ 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.