Asiobaccha nubilipennis
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Syrphidae
- Genus: Asiobaccha
- Species: Asiobaccha nubilipennis
Visual Description
Asiobaccha nubilipennis is a hoverfly characterized by its slender, elongated body form, typical of the tribe Bacchini. Observations of specimens from the TreeOfLife-200M dataset reveal a distinct, dark, cloud-like infuscation on the wings, which is a diagnostic feature of this species.[1] The abdomen is notably petiolate, being very narrow at the base and widening towards the posterior end.[1]
Taxonomy and Classification
Asiobaccha nubilipennis was originally described by Austen in 1893 as Baccha nubilipennis.[2] It has since been reclassified into the genus Asiobaccha.[3]
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References
- 1 2 3 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Syrphidae / Asiobaccha / nubilipennis constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Asiobaccha nubilipennis (Austen, 1893). GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/10730972. Accessed 2026-07-16.
- ↑ Asiobaccha nubilipennis, comb. nov. - Plazi TreatmentBank. Plazi TreatmentBank. http://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/xhtml/B23987DCFF99FFE35E1CD7EBFEA1FDBB. Accessed 2026-07-14.