Atissa litoralis
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Ephydridae
- Genus: Atissa
- Species: Atissa litoralis
Visual Description
Atissa litoralis is a small fly characteristic of the family Ephydridae. Observations of preserved specimens from the TreeOfLife-200M dataset reveal a compact body form typical of shore flies.[1] The specimens exhibit a dark, sclerotized exoskeleton and distinct, compound eyes positioned laterally on the head.[1]
Biology and Classification
Atissa litoralis was originally described by F.R. Cole in 1912 as Allotrichoma litoralis.[2] It is currently recognized as an accepted species within the genus Atissa.
Gallery
References
- 1 2 3 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Ephydridae / Atissa / litoralis constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Atissa litoralis (Cole, 1912). GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/1619110. Accessed 2026-07-09.