Asteiidae
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Asteiidae
Visual Description
Asteiidae are small flies, often referred to as "cryptochelid flies" [2]. Based on observations from the TreeOfLife-200M dataset, these insects typically exhibit a compact body form with delicate, often translucent or lightly patterned wings. [1] The body coloration is frequently pale or yellowish, sometimes with darker markings on the thorax or abdomen. [1]
Overview
Asteiidae is a family of flies within the superfamily Opomyzoidea [3]. They are generally recognized as a group of smaller flies .
Gallery
References
- 1 2 3 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Asteiidae constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Asteiidae. GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/7276. Accessed 2026-07-14.
- ↑ Jere Kahanpää. Checklist of the smaller families of Opomyzoidea, Anthomyzidae, Asteiidae, Aulacigastridae, Clusiidae, Odiniidae, Opomyzidae and Periscelididae (Diptera) of Finland. ZooKeys. 2014. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.441.7141.