Hilara maura (Fabricius, 1776)
(a balloon-legged fly)

Taxonomic hierarchy:
SpeciesHilara maura (a balloon-legged fly)
GenusHilara (balloon-legged 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 Hilara maura (a balloon-legged fly) :
1: Hilara maura (a balloon-legged fly)
1 Jun 2013 OSGR: SZ29 50° 40’ N, 1° 40’ W Vice County: South Hants (VC 11) England
female, swept off Sea Pink
Image 1: Female - head and thorax - lateral view - magnified - grey backgroundImage 2: Female - head and thorax - latero-dorsal view - magnified - grey backgroundImage 3: Female - lateral view - highly enlarged - grey backgroundImage 4: Female - latero-dorsal view - highly enlarged - grey background
2: Hilara maura (a balloon-legged fly)
18 May 2013 OSGR: SZ19 50° 40’ N, 1° 50’ W Vice County: South Hants (VC 11) England
Male, visiting Dandelion flowers
Image 1: Male - dorsal view - highly enlarged - grey backgroundImage 2: Male - lateral view - magnified - grey backgroundImage 3: Male - ventral view - highly enlarged - grey backgroundImage 4: Wing - magnified - white background

Hilara maura (a balloon-legged fly) may be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

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