Azelia zetterstedtii
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Muscidae
- Genus: Azelia
- Species: Azelia zetterstedtii
Visual Description
Based on observations from the TreeOfLife-200M dataset, Azelia zetterstedtii exhibits the general morphological characteristics typical of the genus Azelia[1]. These small flies are characterized by bare eyes, which in males often feature enlarged upper facets[2].
General Information
Azelia zetterstedtii is a species of fly in the family Muscidae, first described by Rondani in 1866[3]. Like other members of the genus Azelia, it is generally associated with the dung of large herbivorous animals and is most diverse in temperate to cold zones of the Palaearctic region.
Gallery
References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Muscidae / Azelia / zetterstedtii constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Nikita E. Vikhrev. REVIEW OF THE WORLD FAUNA OF THE GENUS AZELIA (DIPTERA, MUSCIDAE). . 2015. https://doi.org/10.33910/1999-4079-2015-7-1-33-42.
- ↑ Azelia zetterstedtii Rondani, 1866. GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/1529810. Accessed 2026-07-16.