Astomella hispaniae
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Acroceridae
- Genus: Astomella
- Species: Astomella hispaniae
Visual Description
Astomella hispaniae is a species of spider fly. Based on observations from the TreeOfLife-200M dataset, these flies exhibit the characteristic body form of the family Acroceridae, which typically includes a small head, large, humped thorax, and a relatively large, rounded abdomen.[1]
Ecology and Distribution
Astomella hispaniae Lamarck, 1816 is a member of the family Acroceridae, commonly known as spider flies. These flies are recognized as endoparasitoids of true spiders.[2]
The species has a distribution that includes Southern Europe, Turkey, Syria, and Algeria. Within Turkey, it has been recorded in the Antalya and Konya provinces.
As a member of the subfamily Panopinae, A. hispaniae is associated with parasitizing spiders of the infraorder Mygalomorphae, including families such as Ctenizidae and Theraphosidae.
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References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Acroceridae / Astomella / hispaniae constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Derya ÇİFTÇİ; Abdullah Hasbenlí; Üzeyir Çağlar; Şirin Bahar Can. Contributions to the Turkish Fauna of Spider Flies (Diptera: Brachycera: Acroceridae). Biological Diversity and Conservation. 2021. https://doi.org/10.46309/biodicon.2021.856250.