Asteia atrifacies
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Asteiidae
- Genus: Asteia
- Species: Asteia atrifacies
Visual Description
Asteia atrifacies is a small fly within the family Asteiidae. Based on examination of museum specimen images, the species exhibits a generally slender body form typical of the genus. The head and thorax show distinct coloration patterns, with dark, often blackish, facial markings that are characteristic of the species name atrifacies (meaning "black face"). The wings are relatively large in proportion to the body, with clear venation patterns consistent with the Asteiidae family.[1]
Distribution and Taxonomy
Asteia atrifacies was described by Curtis W. Sabrosky in 1957. The species is recognized as an accepted taxon within the genus Asteia.[2] The original description was published in the Insects of Micronesia series.
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References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Asteiidae / Asteia / atrifacies constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Asteia atrifacies Sabrosky, 1957. GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/1675670. Accessed 2026-07-14.