''Empis lucida'' is a species of fly in the 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 is included in the subgenus ''Anacrostichus''. It is found in the

Palearctic The Palearctic or Palaearctic is a biogeographic realm of the Earth, the largest of eight. Confined almost entirely to the Eastern Hemisphere, it stretches across Europe and Asia, north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa. Th ...

.Collin, J.E. (1961) ''British Flies''. VI. Empididae. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. It is a large (8–10 mm.) shining black species.

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