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Empididae

family of flies
Taxon taxon Q1326176
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Summary

Empididae is a taxon[1]. Empididae ranks in the top 0.81% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (847 views/month, #1,578 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Empididae's instance of is recorded as taxon[3].
  • Empididae is classified at the rank of family[4].
  • Empididae is classified within Muscomorpha[5].
  • Empididae belongs to the parent taxon Empidoidea[6].
  • Empididae's scientific name is Empididae[7].
  • Empididae's Commons category is recorded as Empididae[8].
  • Empididae's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Empididae[9].
  • Empididae's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[10].
  • Empididae's described by source is recorded as Checklist of Diptera of the Czech Republic and Slovakia[11].
  • Empididae's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978)[12].
  • Empididae's described by source is recorded as Belarusian encyclopedia (vol. 15)[13].
  • Empididae's described by source is recorded as Q28025516[14].
  • Empididae is commonly known as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Dagger flies and balloon flies'}[15].
  • Empididae is commonly known as {'lang': 'fi', 'text': 'Tanhukärpäset'}[16].
  • Empididae is commonly known as {'lang': 'nl', 'text': 'dansvliegen'}[17].
  • Empididae's diel cycle is recorded as diurnality[18].

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Classification

Under binomial nomenclature, Empididae is Empididae[7]. Empididae is classified at the rank of family[4]. Recorded parent taxon include Muscomorpha[5] and Empidoidea[6]. Recorded taxon common name include {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Dagger flies and balloon flies'}[15], {'lang': 'fi', 'text': 'Tanhukärpäset'}[16], and {'lang': 'nl', 'text': 'dansvliegen'}[17].

Identifiers

Empididae's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 49460[19]. Empididae's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 92557[20]. Empididae's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 460[21]. Empididae's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 9483[22]. Empididae's ITIS TSN is recorded as 135830[23].

Why It Matters

Empididae ranks in the top 0.81% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (847 views/month, #1,578 of 195,241).[2] Empididae has Wikipedia articles in 17 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24] Empididae is known by 29 alternative names across languages and contexts.[25]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Order Diptera Linnaeus, 1758. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [20] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [23] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [21] ↑ . Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [22] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [17] ↑ . Nederlands Soortenregister. wikidata.org.
  20. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [18] ↑ . Diurnal periodicity of flight by insects. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [24] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [25] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 16d ago · Mrwdat3 · 2026-09-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'arz', 'be', 'ceb', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'hu', 'is', 'it', 'ja',
    Insects (insecta) of the world id → 889821
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  2. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Parent taxon → Muscomorpha, Empidoidea
    Diel cycle → diurnality
    Instance of → taxon
    Aliases → —
    + 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007543224705171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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