Asmeringa inermis
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Ephydridae
- Genus: Asmeringa
- Species: Asmeringa inermis
Visual Description
Asmeringa inermis is a small fly characteristic of the family Ephydridae. Based on observations of specimens in the TreeOfLife-200M dataset, the species exhibits a generally slender body form typical of many shore flies.[1] The head features prominent compound eyes, and the wings are typically clear or lightly infuscated, held in a characteristic position relative to the thorax.[1]
General Information
Asmeringa inermis was described by the entomologist Theodor Becker in 1903.[2] The original description was published in his work on Egyptian Diptera. As a member of the family Ephydridae, it is commonly referred to as a shore fly.[3]
Gallery
References
- 1 2 3 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Ephydridae / Asmeringa / inermis constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Asmeringa inermis Becker, 1903. GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/1620156. Accessed 2026-07-15.
- ↑ Asmeringa inermis Becker 1903 - Plazi TreatmentBank. Plazi TreatmentBank. http://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/xhtml/03D187FDFF98C425FF0232C4FD0EFAF8. Accessed 2026-07-14.