Empis digramma

Empis digramma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Empididae
Genus: Empis
Subgenus: Xanthempis [1]
Species: E. digramma
Binomial name
Empis digramma
Meigen in Gistl, 1835 [2]
Synonyms
  • Empis bilineata Loew, 1867

Empis digramma is a species of dance fly, in the fly family Empididae. The thorax is gray with yellowish sides, with two dark stripes following the line of the dorsalcentral bristles. Abdomen is gray upper and yellowish on the sides. The fly's length is 5–7.5 millimetres (0.2–0.3 in).

References

  1. Collin, J.E. (1961). British Flies VI: Empididae Part 2: Hybotinae, Empidinae (except Hilara). 4. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. p. 329.
  2. Chandler, Peter J. (1998). Checklists of Insects of the British Isles (New Series) Part 1: Diptera. Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects. New Series. 12. London: Royal Entomological Society of London. p. 234. ISBN 0-901546-82-8.


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