Austroleria
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Heleomyzidae
- Genus: Austroleria
Visual Description
Members of the genus Austroleria are small flies typical of the family Heleomyzidae. Observations from the TreeOfLife-200M dataset indicate that these insects possess a generally slender body form with prominent, compound eyes that occupy a significant portion of the head.[1] The wings are typically clear or lightly patterned, and the thorax and abdomen often exhibit a brownish or yellowish coloration, consistent with the general appearance of many heleomyzid flies.[1]
General Information
Austroleria is a genus of flies within the family Heleomyzidae, formally described by McAlpine in 1967.[2] As members of the Heleomyzidae, they are part of a diverse group of acalyptrate flies often found in various habitats, including forest litter and caves.
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References
- 1 2 3 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Heleomyzidae / Austroleria constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Austroleria McAlpine, 1967. GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/1562188. Accessed 2026-07-15.