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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Empidoidea » Dance Flies (Empididae) » Empidinae » Empis » subgenus Anacrostichus (Empis subgenus Anacrostichus)

subgenus Anacrostichus

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Unknown Fly - Empis caeligena Empididae - Empis spectabilis - male - female Fly - Empis spectabilis Dance Fly 2 - Empis Robber Fly? - Empis - male Empis spectabilis - male Empis spectabilis? - Empis spectabilis Empis spectabilis? - Empis spectabilis - female
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon (Orthorrhapha)
Superfamily Empidoidea
Family Empididae (Dance Flies)
Subfamily Empidinae
Genus Empis
No Taxon subgenus Anacrostichus
Identification
"The subgenus Anacrostichus is distinguished from other Nearctic Empis subgenera by the shape of the male postabdomen, which is foot-shaped with the terminalia placed in a more or less ventral position."(1)
Works Cited
1.Review of the Nearctic species of the subgenus Anacrostichus Bezzi, 1909 (Diptera: Empididae)
I. V. Shamshev. 2023. Russian Entomological Journal.
Contributed by Keith Bayless on 12 April, 2011 - 3:33pm
Additional contributions by Vox Sciurorum
Last updated 17 September, 2024 - 10:55am

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