Atractia
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Asilidae
- Genus: Atractia
General Information
Atractia is a genus of robber flies (family Asilidae) described by Pierre-Justin-Marie Macquart in 1838.[2] The genus-group name Atractea Agassiz, 1846, is considered a synonym of Atractia.[3]
Visual Description
The available images from the TreeOfLife-200M dataset consist of preserved museum specimens.[1] Due to the limitations of the provided digital records, specific morphological traits such as fine surface textures or precise color patterns cannot be reliably resolved. The specimens exhibit the general body form characteristic of the family Asilidae.[1]
Gallery
References
- 1 2 3 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Asilidae / Atractia constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Atractia Macquart, 1838. GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/1655307. Accessed 2026-07-14.
- ↑ Neal L. Evenhuis; Thomas Pape; Adrian C. Pont. Nomenclatural Studies Toward a World List of Diptera Genus-Group Names. Part V: Pierre-Justin-Marie Macquart. Zootaxa. 2016. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4172.1.1.