Austrocnephia orientale
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Simuliidae
- Genus: Austrocnephia
- Species: Austrocnephia orientale
Description
Austrocnephia orientale is a species of black fly within the family Simuliidae. It was originally described by M.J. Mackerras and I.M. Mackerras in 1950 as part of their work on Australasian Simuliidae.[2]
Visual Description
The available dataset images for Austrocnephia orientale are of museum specimens.[1] Due to the nature of these images, fine morphological details such as wing venation or specific setal patterns cannot be resolved. The specimens exhibit the general body form characteristic of the family Simuliidae, including a compact, robust thorax and relatively short legs.
Gallery
References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Simuliidae / Austrocnephia / orientale constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Austrocnephia orientale (Mackerras & Mackerras, 1950). GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/11218566. Accessed 2026-07-16.