Amiota alboguttata
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Drosophilidae
- Genus: Amiota
- Species: Amiota alboguttata
Visual Description
Amiota alboguttata is a small to medium-sized fly, characterized by a dark brown to black-brown body with distinct white markings.[2] Observations from the TreeOfLife-200M dataset show the species exhibits a generally dark, robust body form with characteristic white spots or patches, particularly on the thorax and abdomen, which are consistent with the genus's typical appearance.[1] The frons can appear faintly pollinose to silvery reflective.[2]
Biology and Ecology
Amiota alboguttata belongs to the A. alboguttata species-group, a recognized taxonomic group within the genus Amiota.[3] Diagnostic characteristics for males of this group include a row of long setae on the ventral side of the hindleg tibia and the broadening of the second to fifth tarsomeres of the hindleg.
Interactions recorded for A. alboguttata include associations with the European ash (Fraxinus excelsior) and predation by the spider Mangora acalypha.[4]
Gallery
References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Drosophilidae / Amiota / alboguttata constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- 1 2 Amiota alboguttata - Plazi TreatmentBank. Plazi TreatmentBank. http://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/xhtml/3C6787EDFFE3FFB462F3F9DAFC30F94C. Accessed 2026-07-14.
- ↑ Wenxia Zhang; Hongwei Chen. The genus Amiota (Diptera: Drosophilidae) from Hengduan Mountains, southwestern China. European Journal of Entomology. 2006. https://doi.org/10.14411/eje.2006.062.
- ↑ Amiota alboguttata. Global Biotic Interactions. https://www.globalbioticinteractions.org/?targetTaxon=Amiota%20alboguttata. Accessed 2026-07-14.