Empis snoddyi

Empis snoddyi

Classification

Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Empididae

Empis snoddyi is a species of dance flies in the family Empididae. It is present in the United States, specifically mountainous areas from southern Virginia to northern Georgia. These flies are known for their distinctive mating ritual in which the males offer the females a large empty sack filled with hundreds of silk bubbles.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

United States of America · 11

Sources and credits

Photo(c) Will Kuhn, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY DescriptionEmpis snoddyi, Wikipedia contributors

Empis snoddyi

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