Empis Linnaeus, 1758
(a genus of dance flies)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:
GenusEmpis (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)

Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Chvála, M. 1994 The Empididae (Diptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark, Part III Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica, 29, 192pp, E. J. Brill / Scandinavian Science Press Ltd.
() Hackston, M. 2009 Empididae, genus Empis, illustrated key https://sites.google.com/site/mikesinsectkeys2/

Alpicola Group

Chvala, M. & Pont, A.C. 2014 Revision of the European Empis (s. str.) alpicola-group of species (Diptera: Empididae), with a new synonymy of Rhamphomyia subgenus Aclonempis Collin with the subgenus Empis Linnaeus s. str. Studia Dipterologica Vol 21 (1): 53-68.

Empis (a genus of dance flies) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Empis (a genus of dance flies)
BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 0 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for Empis (a genus of dance flies)
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