Atissa pygmaea
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 pygmaea
Visual Description
Atissa pygmaea is a small fly, consistent with the general morphology of the family Ephydridae. Based on observations of specimens in the TreeOfLife-200M dataset, the species exhibits a compact body form typical of shore flies.[1] The coloration is generally dark, and the wings are held in a characteristic position over the abdomen. Due to the small size of the specimens, fine morphological details such as specific setal patterns are difficult to resolve in the available imagery.[1]
General Information
Atissa pygmaea was originally described by A.H. Haliday in 1833 as Ephydra pygmaea.[2] It is an accepted species within the genus Atissa.
Gallery
References
- 1 2 3 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Ephydridae / Atissa / pygmaea constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Atissa pygmaea (Haliday, 1833). GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/1619106. Accessed 2026-07-09.