Apiocera braunsi
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Apioceridae
- Genus: Apiocera
- Species: Apiocera braunsi
Visual Description
Apiocera braunsi is a species of apiocerid fly. Based on observations from the TreeOfLife-200M dataset, individuals exhibit the characteristic elongated body form typical of the family Apioceridae.[1] The flies possess prominent, compound eyes and a slender abdomen that tapers towards the posterior.[1]
General Information
Apiocera braunsi was described by A.L. Melander in 1907, with the original description published in the Bulletin of the Wisconsin Natural History Society.[2] It is recognized as an accepted species within the genus Apiocera. Research into the Afrotropical Apioceridae has utilized online taxonomic resources to integrate data regarding this species, including information on the deposition of its holotype.[3]
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References
- 1 2 3 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Apioceridae / Apiocera / braunsi constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Apiocera braunsi Melander, 1907. GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/1611644. Accessed 2026-07-14.
- ↑ Torsten Dikow; Donat Agosti. Utilizing online resources for taxonomy: a cybercatalog of Afrotropical apiocerid flies (Insecta: Diptera: Apioceridae). Biodiversity Data Journal. 2015. https://doi.org/10.3897/bdj.3.e5707.