''Empis'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...

of dance fly, in the fly family

Empididae __NOTOC__ Empididae is a family of flies with over 3,000 described species occurring worldwide in all the biogeographic realms but the majority are found in the Holarctic. They are mainly predatory flies like most of their relatives in the Empid ...

. It contains the following subgenera and species: ;'' Anacrostichus'' Bezzi, 1909 :*'' Empis bistortae'' Meigen, 1822 :*'' Empis lucida'' Zetterstedt, 1838 :*'' Empis monticola'' Loew, 1868 :*'' Empis nitida'' Meigen, 1804 :*'' Empis verralli'' Collin, 1927 ;'' Argyrandrus'' Bezzi, 1909 :*'' Empis dispar'' Scholtz, 1851 ;'' Coptophlebia'' Bezzi, 1909 :*'' Empis albinervis'' Meigen, 1822 :*'' Empis hyalipennis'' Fallén, 1816 :*'' Empis impennis''

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, 1902 :*'' Empis lindneri'' Smith, 1925 :*'' Empis vitripennis'' Meigen, 1822 :*'' Empis volucris'' Wiedemann in Meigen, 1822 ;'' Empis''

Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the ...

, 1758 :*'' Empis aestiva'' Loew, 1867 :*'' Empis bicuspidata'' Collin, 1927 :*'' Empis caudatula'' Loew, 1867 :*'' Empis chioptera'' Meigen, 1804 :*'' Empis decora'' Meigen, 1822 :*'' Empis limata'' Collin, 1927 :*'' Empis nigripes'' Fabricius, 1794 :*'' Empis nuntia'' Meigen, 1838 :*'' Empis pennipes''

, 1758 :*'' Empis planetica'' Collin, 1927 :*'' Empis praevia'' Collin, 1927 :*'' Empis prodromus'' Loew, 1867 :*'' Empis rufiventris'' Meigen, 1838 :*'' Empis syrovatkai'' Chvála, 1985 :*'' Empis tanysphyra'' Loew, 1873 :*'' Empis woodi'' Collin, 1927 ;'' Euempis''

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, 1953 :*'' Empis basalis'' Loew, 1873 :*'' Empis calcarata'' Bezzi, 1899 :*'' Empis ciliata'' Fabricius, 1787 :*'' Empis erosa'' Loew, 1869 :*'' Empis fiumana'' Egger, 1860 :*'' Empis kerteszi'' Bezzi, 1900 :*'' Empis mikii''

, 1899 :*'' Empis mirandica'' Chvála, 1981 :*'' Empis morenae''

, 1899 :*'' Empis morio'' Fabricius, 1794 :*'' Empis picipes'' Meigen, 1804 :*'' Empis pilicornis'' Loew, 1867 :*'' Empis sericans'' Brulle, 1833 :*'' Empis spiralis'' Collin, 1937 :*'' Empis tessellata'' Fabricius, 1794 ;'' Kritempis'' Collin, 1926 :*'' Empis livida''

, 1758 ;'' Leptempis'' Collin, 1926 :*'' Empis abdominalis'' Daugeron, 1999 :*'' Empis adusta'' Loew, 1869 :*'' Empis affinis'' Egger, 1860 :*'' Empis alpina'' Loew, 1867 :*'' Empis cognata'' Egger, 1860 :*'' Empis confusa'' Loew, 1865 :*'' Empis dimidiata'' Meigen in Gistl, 1835 :*'' Empis discolor'' Loew, 1856 :*'' Empis divisa'' Loew, 1869 :*'' Empis flavitarsis'' Roser, 1840 :*'' Empis gaigeri'' Gercke, 1886 :*'' Empis grisea'' Fallén, 1816 :*'' Empis lamellata'' Daugeron, 1999 :*'' Empis lamellimmanis'' Daugeron, 1999 :*'' Empis macra'' Loew, 1867 :*'' Empis maculata'' Fabricius, 1781 :*'' Empis meridionalis'' Meigen, 1822 :*'' Empis mesogramma'' Loew, 1867 :*'' Empis multispina'' Daugeron, 1999 :*'' Empis nigricans'' Meigen, 1804 :*'' Empis pandellei'' Daugeron, 1999 :*'' Empis pteropoda'' Egger, 1860 :*'' Empis rava'' Loew, 1862 :*'' Empis rustica'' Fallén, 1816 :*'' Empis sinuosa'' Daugeron, 1999 :*'' Empis spitzeri'' Chvála, 1977 :*'' Empis trunca'' Daugeron, 1999 :*'' Empis variegata'' Meigen, 1804 ;'' Lissempis'' Bezzi, 1909 :*'' Empis cuneipennis'' Bezzi, 1899 :*'' Empis curvitibia'' Chvála, 2003 :*'' Empis insularis'' Chvála, 2003 :*'' Empis liosoma'' Bezzi, 1909 :*'' Empis nigritarsis'' Meigen, 1804 ;'' Pachymeria'' Stephens, 1829 :*'' Empis femorata'' Fabricius, 1798 :*'' Empis scotica''

Curtis Curtis or Curtiss is a common English given name and surname of Anglo-Norman origin from the Old French ''curteis'' ( Modern French ''courtois'') which derived from the Spanish Cortés (of which Cortez is a variation) and the Portuguese and Ga ...

, 1835 :*'' Empis tumida'' Meigen, 1822 ;'' Platyptera'' Meigen, 1803 :*''

Empis borealis ''Empis borealis'' is a species of dance flies in the fly family Empididae. It is found in most of Europe, except the Balkan Peninsula, the Baltic Region and the Iberian Peninsula. The brown wings of the female are very broad, while the male fly� ...

, 1758 ;'' Polyblepharis'' Bezzi, 1909 :*'' Empis albicans'' Meigen, 1822 :*'' Empis candidata'' Loew, 1873 :*'' Empis cothurnata'' Brulle, 1833 :*'' Empis crassa''

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, 1868 :*'' Empis curta'' Loew, 1869 :*'' Empis curvipes'' Loew, 1868 :*'' Empis dasynota'' Loew, 1869 :*'' Empis dedecor'' Loew, 1869 :*'' Empis depilis'' Loew, 1873 :*'' Empis divergens'' Loew, 1869 :*'' Empis engeli'' Chvála, 1999 :*'' Empis eumera'' Loew, 1868 :*'' Empis eversmanni'' Loew, 1873 :*'' Empis fallax'' Egger, 1860 :*'' Empis gravipes'' Loew, 1856 :*'' Empis haemi'' Loew, 1862 :*'' Empis haemorrhoica'' Loew, 1869 :*'' Empis lugubris'' Loew, 1869 :*'' Empis nigerrima'' Loew, 1862 :*'' Empis opaca'' Meigen, 1804 :*'' Empis phaenomeris'' Loew, 1868 :*'' Empis soror'' Collin, 1937 :*'' Empis strigata'' Loew, 1867 ;'' Rhadinempis'' Collin, 1926 :*'' Empis bazini'' Collin, 1926 :*'' Empis soror'' Collin, 1937 ;'' Xanthempis'' Bezzi, 1909 :*'' Empis adriani'' Chvála, 1996 :*'' Empis aemula'' Loew, 1873 :*'' Empis aequalis'' Loew, 1873 :*'' Empis albifrons'' Bezzi, 1909 :*'' Empis algecirasensis''

, 1909 :*'' Empis concolor'' Verrall, 1872 :*'' Empis digramma'' Meigen in Gistl, 1835 :*'' Empis dispina'' Chvála, 1996 :*'' Empis kuntzei''

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, 1910 :*'' Empis laeta'' Loew, 1869 :*'' Empis laetabilis'' Collin, 1926 :*'' Empis lagoensis'' Chvála, 1996 :*'' Empis loewiana'' Bezzi, 1909 :*'' Empis lutea'' Meigen, 1804 :*'' Empis nevadensis'' Chvála, 1981 :*'' Empis oxilara'' Shamshev, 1998 :*'' Empis punctata'' Meigen, 1804 :*'' Empis rohaceki'' Chvála, 1994 :*'' Empis scutellata''

, 1835 :*'' Empis semicinerea'' Loew, 1867 :*'' Empis stercorea''

, 1761 :*'' Empis styriaca''

, 1893 :*'' Empis subscutellata'' Shamshev, 1998 :*'' Empis testacea'' Fabricius, 1805 :*'' Empis testiculata'' Bezzi, 1909 :*''

Empis trigramma ''Empis trigramma'' is a species of dance flies, in the fly family Empididae. The thorax with yellowish sides, with three broad dark stripes. Abdomen The abdomen (colloquially called the belly, tummy, midriff, tucky or stomach) is the part of ...

'' Wiedemann in Meigen, 1822 :*'' Empis unistriata''

, 1887 :*'' Empis univittata'' Loew, 1867

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