🦋 Family

Empididae

7 species · Animals

Animalia › Arthropoda › Insecta › Diptera › Empididae

Empis livida is a widely distributed European fly species in the Empididae family with distinct male and female traits.

Empis tessellata is a large species of dance fly native across most of Eurasia, found in moist open and lightly wooded habitats.

Empis borealis, a dance or balloon fly, is a common empidid with sexual dimorphism and characteristic male nuptial gift balloon behavior.

Empis stercorea is a large species of dance fly in Empididae, found across most of Europe except the Iberian Peninsula.

Empis clausa is a common dance fly species from North America's Midwest and Great Plains.

Rhamphomyia longicauda, the long-tailed dance fly, is an eastern North American fly species noted for courtship sex role reversal.

Rhamphomyia marginata is an Empididae dance fly species found in Europe, unusual because females swarm instead of males.

Related Families

Syrphidae 232 species Cecidomyiidae 92 species Tephritidae 78 species Tachinidae 58 species Culicidae 54 species Bombyliidae 53 species Stratiomyidae 51 species Asilidae 49 species

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