Asteia multipunctata
Asteia multipunctata is a species of fly in the family Asteiidae. It was described by the entomologist Curtis W. Sabrosky in 1939.[1]
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[2]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Asteiidae
- Genus: Asteia
- Species: Asteia multipunctata
Visual Description
The available imagery for Asteia multipunctata from the TreeOfLife-200M dataset[2] consists of museum specimen records. Due to the limitations of the provided digital assets, specific morphological traits such as detailed wing venation or precise setal patterns cannot be resolved.
Biology and Classification
Asteia multipunctata belongs to the genus Asteia, which was established by Meigen in 1830.[3] The species was formally described in 1939 in The Pan-Pacific Entomologist.[1]
Gallery
References
- 1 2 Asteia multipunctata Sabrosky, 1939. GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/1675716. Accessed 2026-07-14.
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Asteiidae / Asteia / multipunctata constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ James E. O’Hara; Pierfilippo Cerretti; Thomas Pape; Neal L. Evenhuis. Nomenclatural Studies Toward a World List of Diptera Genus-Group Names. Part II: Camillo Rondani. Zootaxa. 2011. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3141.1.1.