Clinocera stagnalis (Haliday, 1833)
(a dance fly)

Taxonomic hierarchy:
SpeciesClinocera stagnalis (a dance fly)
GenusClinocera (a genus of dance flies)
FamilyEMPIDIDAE (dance flies, dagger flies)
SuperfamilyEMPIDOIDEA (dance flies, dagger flies, long-legged flies)
InfraorderEremoneura - Empidoidea (an infraorder of flies)
OrderDIPTERA (two-winged flies)
Division Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
InfraclassNeoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
SubclassPTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
ClassINSECTA (true insects)
SubphylumHEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)
Records of Clinocera stagnalis (a dance fly) :
1: Clinocera stagnalis (a dance fly)
18 Apr 2013 OSGR: SY68 50° 40’ N, 2° 30’ W Vice County: Dorset (VC 9) England
female, swept from muddy stream
Image 1: Female - dorsal view - close-up - highly enlarged - pale backgroundImage 2: Female - dorsal view - highly enlarged - pale backgroundImage 3: Female - head and thorax - dorsal view - magnified - pale backgroundImage 4: Female - head and thorax - lateral view - magnified - pale backgroundImage 5: Female - lateral view - highly enlarged - pale backgroundImage 6: Wings - magnified - white backgroundImage 7: Wing - with cell R1 closed - magnified - white backgroundImage 8: Wing - with cell R1 open - magnified - white backgroundImage 9: Female - head and thorax - lateral view - microscope low magnification - pale backgroundImage 10: Female - head - antero-dorsal view - microscope low magnification - pale background

Clinocera stagnalis (a dance fly) may be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

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