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Kind of Fly - Platypalpus
Copyright © 2006 Stephen Cresswell

Kind of Fly - Platypalpus
Ohio River Islands NWR, Pleasants County, West Virginia, USA
June 13, 2006
Alas I didn't record the size, but I seem to recall it was somewhat small. ID help appreciated.
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Contributed by Stephen Cresswell on 8 August, 2006 - 6:58am
Last updated 24 August, 2006 - 5:00pm

Moved
Moved from Dance Flies.
… Stephen Cresswell, 24 August, 2006 - 5:00pm login or register to post comments

Platypalpus
This fly is in the genus Platypalpus
… Norm Woodley, 24 August, 2006 - 2:28pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks, Norm!
I'm glad to be able to move it to the appropriate genus!
… Stephen Cresswell, 24 August, 2006 - 4:54pm login or register to post comments

Hybotidae
It belongs to the Dance fly group, Empididae and there to the Hybotidae. They are preying on other very small insects.
… Martin Hauser, 8 August, 2006 - 11:00am login or register to post comments

 
Clarifying
Martin, Thanks for the ID!

After your ID, I found Paul Beuk's comment on another photo that said this:

"There are two main streams in dance flies. One is to group them all together as one family with several subfamilies (Empidinae, Hybotinae, Microphorinae, and Atelestinae). In Europe and later in may other regions they followed Milan Chvála in his opinion that these subfamilies should be considered as separate families...."

So are you saying that most American researchers would call this Empididae, Europeans might call it Hybotidae?

And assuming I file it under Empididae here at BugGuide, then would Hybotinae be the subfamily to use?

Thanks again for your help, Martin.
… Stephen Cresswell, 9 August, 2006 - 7:30am login or register to post comments

 
As an authoritative site, I a
As an authoritative site, I always check the tree of life pages:
http://www.tolweb.org/Empidoidea/10468
This might be the best to follow.
… Martin Hauser, 9 August, 2006 - 12:28pm login or register to post comments

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