Asilus barbarus
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Asilidae
- Genus: Asilus
- Species: Asilus barbarus
Visual Description
Asilus barbarus is a species of robber fly. Based on observations from the TreeOfLife-200M dataset, individuals exhibit a robust, elongated body typical of the family Asilidae. Key visible traits include a prominent, bristly face (frons) and a thorax that is often covered in fine, dense hairs. The legs are characterized by the presence of sparse, very fine spines. The wings are generally yellowish in appearance, with the apical and marginal areas exhibiting darker, blackish coloration.[1]
Distribution and History
Asilus barbarus was described by Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the 10th edition of Systema Naturae. The species is noted to inhabit Mauritania.[2]
Gallery
References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Asilidae / Asilus / barbarus constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Asilus barbarus Linnaeus, 1758, spec. nov. - Plazi TreatmentBank. Plazi TreatmentBank. http://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/xhtml/805F1BFF471ABB9ADFBC19CCCCDE1449. Accessed 2026-07-14.