Phytalmia
Sign in to savePhytalmia is a genus of tephritid or fruit flies in the family Tephritidae. The males of some species are noted for their hornlike projections on their heads, which are used for fighting.
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Vinony's link graph records 5 inbound references to Phytalmia, and connects out to Animalia, insect and arthropod.
It sits within the topics Phytalmiinae, Taxa named by Carl Eduard Adolph Gerstaecker and Tephritidae genera.
Vinony links it to 7 Wikipedia language editions.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 10
- Family
- Tephritidae
- Collections
- AM, QM, RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE
- Recorded in
- Papua New Guinea
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Tephritidae
- Image
- Phytalmia cervicornis.jpg
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- diel cycle
- diurnality
- taxon name
- Phytalmia
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Phytalmia
- Commons category
- Phytalmia
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Species
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Phytalmia is a genus of tephritid or fruit flies in the family Tephritidae. The males of some species are noted for their hornlike projections on their heads, which are used for fighting.
== Species == Phytalmia alcicornis Phytalmia antilocapra Phytalmia biarmata Phytalmia cervicornis Phytalmia megalotis Phytalmia mouldsi Phytalmia robertsi
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Phytalmia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.