Macrostomus limbipennis

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Macrostomus limbipennis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Superfamily: Empidoidea
Family: Empididae
Subfamily: Empidinae
Genus: Macrostomus
Species:
M. limbipennis
Binomial name
Macrostomus limbipennis
Bezzi, 1909 [1]

Macrostomus limbipennis is a species of dance flies, in the fly family Empididae.

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Empididae Family of flies

Empididae is a family of flies with over 3,000 described species occurring worldwide in all the biogeographic realms but the majority are found in the Holarctic. They are mainly predatory flies like most of their relatives in the Empidoidea, and exhibit a wide range of forms but are generally small to medium-sized, non-metallic and rather bristly.

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Mythicomyiidae Family of flies

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Clinocerinae Subfamily of flies

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References

  1. Bezzi, M. (1909). "Beitrage zur Kenntnis der sudamerikanischen Dipterenfauna Fam. Empididae". Nova Acta Physico-medica Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae Naturae Curiosum. 91: 297–406.