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subgenus Anacrostichus

Pennsylvania Fly - Empis spectabilis - female

Brown headed fly - Empis caeligena - male

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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