Asteia mauiensis
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 mauiensis
Visual Description
Asteia mauiensis is a small fly, consistent with the general morphology of the family Asteiidae. Observations of museum specimens from the TreeOfLife-200M dataset reveal a delicate, slender body structure typical of acalyptrate flies.[1] The specimens exhibit a light-colored, often yellowish or brownish, cuticle. Key visible features include relatively large, prominent compound eyes and a pair of wings that, when at rest, are held flat over the abdomen, characteristic of the genus Asteia.[1]
Distribution and Classification
Asteia mauiensis was described by Hardy and Delfinado in 1980.[2] It is recognized as an accepted species within the genus Asteia.
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References
- 1 2 3 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Asteiidae / Asteia / mauiensis constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Asteia mauiensis Hardy & Delfinado, 1980. GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/1675675. Accessed 2026-07-14.