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
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Antliophora
Ordo: Diptera
Subordo: Brachycera
Infraordo: Asilomorpha
Superfamilia: Empidoidea
Familiae (5): Atelestidae – Brachystomatidae – Dolichopodidae – Empididae – Homalocnemiidae – Hybotidae – Ragadidae

Unplaced genera (1): Gondwanamyia – Homalocnemis

Name

Empidoidea Latreille, 1804

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

• 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. 

• 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. 

• 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. 

• 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

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