Aspistes spathis
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Scatopsidae
- Genus: Aspistes
- Species: Aspistes spathis
Description
Aspistes spathis is a species of minute black scavenger fly in the family Scatopsidae. It was originally described by Edwin F. Cook in 1965 as Arthria spathis before being placed in the genus Aspistes.[2]
Visual Description
While specific morphological traits of Aspistes spathis cannot be resolved from the available dataset imagery, members of the genus Aspistes are generally characterized by their robust, somewhat flattened bodies and specialized, thickened fore tibiae, which are often adapted for digging.[1]
Gallery
References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Scatopsidae / Aspistes / spathis constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Aspistes spathis (Cook, 1965). GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/5072292. Accessed 2026-07-16.