Asphondylia shepherdiae
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Cecidomyiidae
- Genus: Asphondylia
- Species: Asphondylia shepherdiae
Visual Description
Based on observations from the TreeOfLife-200M dataset, Asphondylia shepherdiae exhibits characteristics typical of the family Cecidomyiidae.[1] The specimens display a delicate, slender body form characteristic of gall midges. The wings are relatively long and narrow, with a reduced venation pattern typical of the family. The legs are long and thin, supporting the insect's fragile appearance. Due to the limitations of the available imagery, finer morphological details such as specific antennal segment counts or precise wing vein branching cannot be definitively resolved.[1]
Gallery
References
- 1 2 3 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Cecidomyiidae / Asphondylia / shepherdiae constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.