Backomyia
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Asilidae
- Genus: Backomyia
Overview
Backomyia is a genus of robber flies (family Asilidae) described by Wilcox and Martin in 1957.[2]
Visual Description
Morphological observations of Backomyia are limited due to the unavailability of high-resolution imagery in the current dataset.[1] As members of the family Asilidae, they are generally characterized by their predatory behavior, typically possessing a stout, piercing proboscis and a robust thorax.
Gallery
References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Asilidae / Backomyia constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Backomyia Wilcox & Martin, 1957. GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/1662703. Accessed 2026-07-14.