Empis picipes

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Empis picipes
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Empis picipes
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Empididae
Genus: Empis
Subgenus: Euempis
Species:
E. picipes
Binomial name
Empis picipes
Meigen, 1804 [1] [2]
Synonyms
  • Empis brevicornis Loew, 1869

Empis picipes is a species of dance flies, in the fly family Empididae. It is included in the subgenus Euempis. [3] It is found from Great Britain east to Poland, Slovakia and Hungary and from Fennoscandia south to Italy. It is not found on the Balkan Peninsula, except Greece.

References

  1. ↑ Meigen, J. W. (1804). Klassifikation und Beschreibung der europäischen zweiflügeligen Insekten (Diptera Linn.). Vol. II. Braunschweig [= Brunswick]: Reichard. pp. vi + 153–314.
  2. ↑ Chandler, Peter J. (1998). Checklists of Insects of the British Isles (New Series) Part 1: Diptera. Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects. Vol. 12. London: Royal Entomological Society of London. p. 234. ISBN   0-901546-82-8.
  3. ↑ Collin, J.E. (1961). British Flies VI: Empididae Part 2: Hybotinae, Empidinae (except Hilara). Vol. 4. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. p. 329.
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