Asteia levis
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 levis
Visual Description
Asteia levis is a small fly characteristic of the family Asteiidae. Observations from the TreeOfLife-200M dataset indicate that these flies possess a slender, elongated body form typical of the genus.[1] The specimens exhibit a distinct, relatively large head in proportion to the thorax, and the wings are typically held flat or slightly overlapping over the abdomen when at rest.[1]
General Information
Asteia levis was described by F.W. Hutton in 1902.[2] The species is recognized as an accepted name within the genus Asteia.
Gallery
References
- 1 2 3 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Asteiidae / Asteia / levis constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Asteia levis Hutton, 1902. GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/1675717. Accessed 2026-07-14.