Austrolimnophila unica
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Limoniidae
- Genus: Austrolimnophila
- Species: Austrolimnophila unica
Visual Description
Austrolimnophila unica is a crane fly characterized by its slender, elongated body and long, thin legs. Observations from the TreeOfLife-200M dataset reveal a dark-pigmented thorax and abdomen.[1] The wings are transparent with a distinct venation pattern typical of the family Limoniidae.[1]
Biology and Classification
Austrolimnophila unica (Osten Sacken, 1869) is a Holarctic species of crane fly.[2] It was originally described as Limnophila unica.[3] The species is distinguished from related taxa, such as the recently described Austrolimnophila (Archilimnophila) barkalovi, by the structure of its gonapophyses, which in A. (A.) unica consist of two pairs of curved, dark-pigmented, elongated spines.
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References
- 1 2 3 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Limoniidae / Austrolimnophila / unica constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ V. I. Devyatkov. Austrolimnophila (Archilimnophila) barkalovi sp.n., a new species of Limoniidae (Diptera) from the Taimyr Peninsula, Russia. Euroasian Entomological Journal. 2025. https://doi.org/10.15298/euroasentj.24.01.11.
- ↑ Austrolimnophila unica (Osten Sacken, 1869). GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/1518172. Accessed 2026-07-16.