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Family Hybotidae - Hybotid Dance Flies

Syneches? - Syneches simplex Fly - Platypalpus Hybotid Dance Fly - Leptopeza Flies on oxeye daisy Syneches simplex Hybotidae Culicomorpha? - Platypalpus Syneches thoracicus? - Syneches
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon (Orthorrhapha)
Superfamily Empidoidea
Family Hybotidae (Hybotid Dance Flies)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
used to be treated as a part of Empididae, incl. in recent important sources(1)(2)(3)
Explanation of Names
Hybotidae Macquart 1823
Numbers
~300 spp. in 25 genera of 3 subfamilies in our area(3), >2,000 spp. in 75 genera total(4)
Internet References
diptera.info (photo gallery)
Works Cited
1.Manual of Nearctic Diptera Volume 1
Varies for each chapter; edited by J.F. McAlpine, B.V. Petersen, G.E. Shewell, H.J. Teskey, J.R. Vockeroth, D.M. Wood. 1981. Research Branch Agriculture Canada.
2.Insects: Their Natural History And Diversity: With a Photographic Guide to Insects of Eastern North America
Stephen A. Marshall. 2006. Firefly Books Ltd.
3.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.
4.Order Diptera Linnaeus, 1758. In: Zhang Z.-Q. (ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification...
Pape T., Blagoderov V., Mostovski M.B. 2011. Zootaxa 3148: 222–229.
Contributed by Joel Kits on 14 April, 2005 - 8:08pm
Additional contributions by Vox Sciurorum, v belov
Last updated 25 December, 2014 - 11:59pm

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