Asiola blasio
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Asilidae
- Genus: Asiola
- Species: Asiola blasio
Visual Description
Asiola blasio exhibits the characteristic morphology of the family Asilidae. Observations of specimens from the TreeOfLife-200M dataset[1] reveal a robust, elongated body typical of robber flies. The species displays a prominent, bristly thorax and a distinctively shaped head with large, multifaceted compound eyes. The wings are well-developed and transparent, extending beyond the abdomen. The legs are strong and equipped with spines, facilitating their predatory behavior.
Taxonomy and History
Asiola blasio was originally described by Francis Walker in 1849 as Asilus blasio[2]. It is currently recognized as an accepted species within the genus Asiola.
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References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Asilidae / Asiola / blasio constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Asiola blasio (Walker, 1849). GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/1663029. Accessed 2026-07-14.