Atissa
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Ephydridae
- Genus: Atissa
Overview
Atissa is a genus of shore flies in the family Ephydridae, first described by Alexander Henry Haliday in 1837 [2].
Visual Description
Based on observations from the TreeOfLife-200M dataset, members of the genus Atissa are small flies typical of the Ephydridae family. They exhibit a compact body form, often with a dark, somewhat dull coloration that may provide camouflage in their typical shoreline or saline habitats. The wings are generally clear or slightly infuscated, and the head features prominent, often relatively large eyes characteristic of the family.[1]
Taxonomic Remarks
Taxonomic studies have occasionally required the revision of species assignments within the genus. For instance, Atissa orsovana Enderlein, 1922, has been synonymized with Ptilomyia kairensis (Becker, 1903) following an examination of type material [3].
Gallery
References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Ephydridae / Atissa constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Atissa Haliday, 1837. GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/1619105. Accessed 2026-07-09.
- ↑ Jens‐Hermann Stuke. Taxonomic and faunistic remarks on European Ptilomyia Coquillett (Diptera: Ephydridae). Zootaxa. 2021. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5068.4.7.