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Hybotidae
Sign in to saveHybotidae, 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.
Species
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderDiptera
- FamilyHybotidae
Habitatmarine, brackish, freshwater
Observations recorded273,880
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 4,942
- With media
- 10
- Family
- Hybotidae
- Collections
- UAM, UMNH, UCSB, LACM
- Recorded in
- United States
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Muscomorpha
- Image
- Bicellaria.spuria.jpg
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- Commons category
- Hybotidae
- topic's main category
- Category:Hybotidae
- taxon rank
- family
- taxon name
- Hybotidae
- taxon common name
- Hybotid Dance Flies
- diel cycle
- diurnality
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- Description
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- Systematic list
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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.
Some, such as Tachydromia, are predators that run around on the bark of trees in complex patterns, hence the common name. Tachydromia species are only about three millimeters long.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hybotidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.