Family Empididae
(balloon flies and dance flies)

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Scientific names for Aves taxonomy (family and below) are from The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World, Princeton University Press, copyright 2003. Used by permission.

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  Kingdom Animalia (animals)
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  Eumetazoa (metazoans)
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  Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
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  Protostomia (protostomes)
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  Ecdysozoa
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  Phylum Arthropoda (crustaceans, insects, spiders, and relatives)
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  Uniramia
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  Subphylum Hexapoda
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  Class Insecta (insects)
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  Subclass Pterygota (winged insects)
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  Superorder Neoptera
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  Holometabola
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  Order Diptera (true flies)
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  Suborder Brachycera (circular-seamed flies, muscoid flies, and short-horned flies)
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  Infraorder Muscomorpha
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  Family Empididae (balloon flies and dance flies)
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  Subfamily Brachystomatinae
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  Genus Anomalempis
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  Genus Brachystoma
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  Subfamily Clinocerinae
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  Genus Boreodromia
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  Genus Ceratempis
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  Genus Clinocera
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  Genus Dolichocephala
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  Genus Heleodromia
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  Genus Niphogenia
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  Genus Oreothalia
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  Genus Proclinopyga
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  Genus Roederiodes
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  Genus Sabroskyella
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  Genus Trichoclinocera
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  Genus Wiedemannia
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  Genus Zanclotus
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  Subfamily Empidinae
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  Genus Anthepiscopus
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  Genus Brochella
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  Genus Empis
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