Posted by proctoss on 19-08-2006 16:06
#1
Empididae, genus ?
Baltic sea, Kaliningrad (Koenigsberg) 07.2006
Posted by Jan Willem on 20-08-2006 17:06
#6
By the way,
Stilpon belongs to the family Hybotidae, not Empididae.
Very nice pictures!
Jan Willem
Posted by proctoss on 20-08-2006 19:01
#7
Yes, thank you! I fall behind the events in systematics of Diptera. Really Chv?la already in 1983 divided traditional Empididae into four families: Empididae (including Empidinae, Oreogetoninae, Hemerodromiinae, Clinocerinae, Brachystomatinae), Hybotidae, Atelestidae and Microphoridae.
And in the fresh review BRADLEY J. SINCLAIR & JEFFREY M. CUMMING (2006) The morphology, higher-level phylogeny and classification of the Empidoidea (Diptera) , Zootaxa 1180, 172pp. classification of the Empidoidea to include the following five families: Empididae, Hybotidae, Atelestidae (including Nemedininae n.subfam.), Brachystomatidae rev. stat. (comprising the subfamilies Brachystomatinae, Ceratomerinae and Trichopezinae), and Dolichopodidae s.lat. The family Microphoridae is not recognized, and the Microphorinae and Parathalassiinae are assigned to the Dolichopodidae s.lat.