Actina chalybea
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Stratiomyidae
- Genus: Actina
- Species: Actina chalybea
Visual Description
Actina chalybea is a species of soldier fly. Based on observations from the TreeOfLife-200M dataset, the adult fly exhibits a metallic, often dark or bluish-black, coloration on the thorax and abdomen.[1] The body structure is typical of the family Stratiomyidae, with a somewhat flattened appearance and distinct wing venation patterns visible in high-resolution images.[1]
Ecology and Distribution
Actina chalybea (Meigen, 1804) is a spring-active species of the family Stratiomyidae found in the Crimea.[2] Adults have been observed swarming under forest canopies during May, with collections showing a male-biased sex ratio. The larvae are terrestrial saprophages that develop in organic debris within sandy soil.
Its distribution encompasses Central and Southern Europe (north to Germany), the Caucasus (Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan), North Africa, Turkey, and Iran; it has not been recorded in Scandinavia, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Denmark, Belgium, or the Netherlands.
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References
- 1 2 3 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Stratiomyidae / Actina / chalybea constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ E. P. Nartshuk. Biodiversity of soldier flies (Diptera, Stratiomyidae) of the Crimean Peninsula. Энтомологическое обозрение. 2024. https://doi.org/10.31857/s0367144524040027.