Athrycia cinerea
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Tachinidae
- Genus: Athrycia
- Species: Athrycia cinerea
Visual Description
Athrycia cinerea is a species of tachinid fly. Based on observations of museum specimens, the species exhibits the characteristic robust, bristly body form typical of the family Tachinidae.[1] The specimens display a generally greyish coloration, consistent with the specific epithet cinerea. The thorax and abdomen are covered in distinct, dark macrochaetae (bristles), which are prominent features of its external morphology.[1]
Classification and History
Athrycia cinerea was originally described by the entomologist Daniel William Coquillett in 1895 under the name Paraplagia cinerea.[2] It is currently recognized as an accepted species within the genus Athrycia.
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References
- 1 2 3 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Tachinidae / Athrycia / cinerea constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Athrycia cinerea (Coquillett, 1895). GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/1471695. Accessed 2026-07-17.