Amma blancheae
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Coelopidae
- Genus: Amma
- Species: Amma blancheae
Visual Description
Amma blancheae is a species of kelp fly. Observations of museum specimens from the TreeOfLife-200M dataset indicate that these flies possess a robust, typical dipteran body plan.[1]
Biology and Ecology
Amma blancheae is a member of the family Coelopidae, commonly known as kelp flies.[2] Literature notes that this species exhibits sexual dimorphism, with males possessing reduced bristles compared to females. While the family Coelopidae is characterized by extreme sexual conflict and female resistance to mating, specific behavioral data for A. blancheae remain limited.
The species was described by D.K. McAlpine in 1991.[3]
Gallery
References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Coelopidae / Amma / blancheae constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Rebecca J. LeGrice; Gregory I. Holwell. Size variation, allometry and mating success in Aotearoa|New Zealand kelp flies (Coelopidae). Evolutionary Ecology. 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10682-022-10159-8.
- ↑ Amma blancheae McAlpine, 1991. GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/1562078. Accessed 2026-07-15.