Atelestus pulicarius
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Atelestidae
- Genus: Atelestus
- Species: Atelestus pulicarius
Visual Description
The species Atelestus pulicarius is a member of the order Diptera. While specific morphological traits are difficult to resolve from available imagery, the genus Atelestus is characterized by features typical of the family Atelestidae.[1]
Distribution and Records
Atelestus pulicarius (Fallén, 1816) has been documented in various regions, including recent records from Turkey, which represent the first report of the species from that country.[2] The species is recognized as an accepted name in global biodiversity databases.[3]
Gallery
References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Atelestidae / Atelestus / pulicarius constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Liliana Kanavalová; Štěpán Kubík; Miroslav Barták. Two new West Palaearctic species of Atelestus Walker (Diptera, Atelestidae) and new distributional records of the family. ZooKeys. 2020. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.955.53698.
- ↑ Atelestus pulicarius (Fallén, 1816). GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/1443644. Accessed 2026-07-14.