Posted by Auke on 13-06-2020 18:47
#6
Searching for images of these three genera (with
Empeda as a subgenus of
Cheilotrichia) with Google turns up no species with anything close to the ornamentation my fly has on its legs (most specimens in BOLD have no legs at all).
BOLD places these genera in Chioneinae, while Bugguide skips the level of subfamily and places
Cheilotrichia directly in the tribe Eriopterini. What is the lowest taxonomic level you would still consider accurate?