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Hybotid Dance Flies
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Hybotid Dance Flies

Hybotidae

Hybotidae, the typical dance flies, are a family of true flies. They belong to the superfamily Empidoidea and were formerly included in the Empididae as a subfamily.

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6 branches of this family, most-observed first

Tachydromiinae

subfamilyTachydromiinae

Hybotinae

subfamilyHybotinae

Oedaleinae

subfamilyOedaleinae

Ocydromiinae

subfamilyOcydromiinae

Trichininae

subfamilyTrichininae

Stuckenbergomyia

genusStuckenbergomyia

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 174422.