Hilara Meigen, 1822
(balloon-legged flies)

Hilara (balloon-legged flies) may be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Hilara (balloon-legged flies) may be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Taxonomic hierarchy:
GenusHilara (balloon-legged flies)
FamilyEMPIDIDAE (dance flies, dagger flies)
SuperfamilyEMPIDOIDEA (dance flies, dagger flies, long-legged flies)
InfraorderEremoneura - Empidoidea (an infraorder of flies)
OrderDIPTERA (two-winged flies)
Division Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
InfraclassNeoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
SubclassPTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
ClassINSECTA (true insects)
SubphylumHEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)
NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Hilara (balloon-legged flies)

Identification Works

Handling & MagnificationAuthorYearTitleSource
Chvála, M. 2005 The Empidoidea (Diptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark, Part IV: Genus Hilara Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica, 40, 234pp, E. J. Brill / Scandinavian Science Press Ltd.

Hilara (balloon-legged flies) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may be relevant to Hilara (balloon-legged flies):

BioImagesBioImages (www.bioimages.org.uk) has 21 images of Hilara (balloon-legged flies)
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