Empidoidea

Empis tessellata

Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Cladus: Pancrustacea
Cladus: Allotriocarida
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Holometabola
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Antliophora
Ordo: Diptera
Subordo: Brachycera
Infraordo: Asilomorpha
Superfamilia: Empidoidea
Familiae (8): Atelestidae – Brachystomatidae – Dolichopodidae – Iteaphilidae – Empididae – Homalocnemiidae – Hybotidae – Ragadidae

Unplaced genera (1): Gondwanamyia

Name

Empidoidea Latreille, 1804

References

Primary references

• Latreille, P.A. 1804. Tableau méthodique des insectes. Pp. 129–200 in: Société de Naturalistes et d'Agriculteurs. Nouveau dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle. Tome 24. Paris: Déterville, 84 + 85 + 238 + 18 + 34 pp. BHL HathiTrust Reference page. 

Additional references

• Moulton, J.K.; Wiegmann, B.M. 2007: The phylogenetic relationships of flies in the superfamily Empidoidea (Insecta: Diptera). Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 43(3): 701–713. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2007.02.029
• Pape, T., Blagoderov, V. & Mostovski, M.B. 2011. Order Diptera Linnaeus, 1758. Pp 222–229 In Zhang, Z.-Q. (ed.) 2011. Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Zootaxa 3148: 1–237. Open access. Reference page. . (PDF) Reference page. 
• Plant, A.R., Bickel, D.J., Chatelain, P., Daugeron, C. & Srisuka, W. 2019. Composition and organization of highly speciose Empidoidea (Diptera) communities in tropical montane forests of northern Thailand. Zootaxa 4590(1): 1–39. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4590.1.1 Reference page. 
• Sinclair, B.J. & Cumming, J.M. 2006. The morphology, higher-level phylogeny and classification of the Empidoidea (Diptera). Zootaxa 1180: 1–172. Abstract & excerpt. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1180.1.1. PDF A, PDF B. Reference page. 
• Sinclair, B.J., Cumming, J.M., Brooks, S.E., Plant, A.R. & Saigusa, T. 2016. Gondwanamyia, a new empidoid (Diptera) genus of uncertain placement. ZooKeys 621: 137–147. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.621.10115. Reference page. 
• Sinclair, B.J. & Shamshev, I.V. 2021. World revision of Iteaphila with unbranched radial vein (Diptera: Empidoidea: Iteaphilidae). Zootaxa 4968(1): 1–89. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4968.1.1 . ResearchGate . Plazi. Reference page. 
• Wahlberg, E. & Johanson, K.A. 2018. Molecular phylogenetics reveals novel relationships within Empidoidea (Diptera). Systematic Entomology 43(4): 619–636. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12297 . Reference page. 

Vernacular names

日本語: オドリバエ上科
中文: 舞虻总科

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