Austrophorocera
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Tachinidae
- Genus: Austrophorocera
Visual Description
Based on observations of museum specimens in the TreeOfLife-200M dataset, members of the genus Austrophorocera exhibit characteristic tachinid morphology.[1] They typically possess a robust body form with prominent, stout bristles (macrochaetae) distributed across the thorax and abdomen, which is a common feature among many flies in the family Tachinidae. The specimens observed show a distinct, often dark-colored thorax and an abdomen that may feature patterned or banded coloration. Due to the nature of the preserved specimens in the dataset, finer morphological details such as specific wing venation patterns or precise antennal structure are difficult to resolve, but the overall habitus is consistent with the genus's placement within the subfamily Exoristinae.[2]
General Information
Austrophorocera is a genus of flies in the family Tachinidae, first described by the entomologist Charles Henry Tyler Townsend in 1916.[3] The genus is recognized as having a diverse range of species, and it is noted as one of the few tachinid genera in Vietnam that includes more than one species.[4]
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References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Tachinidae / Austrophorocera constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Austrophorocera. Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrophorocera. Accessed 2026-07-15.
- ↑ Austrophorocera Townsend, 1916. GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/1462796. Accessed 2026-07-17.
- ↑ Nguyen Van Hieu; Vũ Quang Mạnh; Hubenov Zdravko. Zoogeography of Vietnam Based on the Analysis of Oribatida and Tachinidae. Indian Journal of Entomology. 2026. https://doi.org/10.55446/ije.2026.3775.