Astochia jayarami
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Asilidae
- Genus: Astochia
- Species: Astochia jayarami
Overview
Astochia jayarami is a species of robber fly (family Asilidae) described by Joseph and Parui in 1981.[2] The species was identified as part of a study on Astochia, Promachus, and Saropogon genera from India.[2]
Visual Description
Morphological observations of Astochia jayarami are limited by the availability of high-resolution imagery. As a member of the family Asilidae, it shares the general characteristics of robber flies, which typically include a stout, bristly body, a prominent proboscis adapted for predation, and large, widely separated compound eyes.[1]
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References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Asilidae / Astochia / jayarami constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- 1 2 Astochia jayarami Joseph & Parui, 1981. GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/1663395. Accessed 2026-07-14.