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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Empidoidea » Hybotid Dance Flies (Hybotidae) » Hybotinae

Subfamily Hybotinae

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UI Fly 070909-1 - Hybos Hump-backed Fly - Syneches - male Dipteran 4 - Syneches Hybotid Dance Fly - Syneches simplex hybotid dance fly - Syneches thoracicus Small fly at light - Syneches simplex - female Simulium - Syneches simplex Empididae - Syneches thoracicus
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)
Subfamily Hybotinae
Numbers
35 spp. in 5 genera in our area(1)
Remarks
"The Hybotinae are characterized by holoptic females (except Lamachella and Leptocrytoma), proboscis often heavily sclerotized and projecting obliquely or horizontally forwards, wings generally with well developed anal lobe, cell dm emitting two veins and prosternum isolated and separated from proepisternum." (Sinclair and Cumming 2006)
Works Cited
1.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.
Contributed by Matthias Buck on 31 March, 2008 - 2:16pm
Additional contributions by Vox Sciurorum, v belov
Last updated 24 September, 2013 - 8:41am

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