Trichopezinae

Trichopezinae are a subfamily of empidoid flies. They are mainly predatory flies like most of their relatives, and generally small to medium-sized, long-legged and large-eyed.

Trichopezinae
Trichopeza longicornis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Empididae
Subfamily:	Trichopezinae

Previously, they were included in the Clinocerinae or the Hemerodromiinae. In some more recent treatments, the Brachystomatinae are considered a distinct family, and the Trichopezinae are placed therein.^[1] However, it is more likely that the Brachystomatinae are part of the Empididae, and that the Trichopezinae represent a separate lineage in the same family. The monophyly of the Trichopezinae versus its closest relatives is not firmly established; it seems likely that some changes will be necessary to make this subfamily a natural group.^[2]

Selected genera

• Apalocnemis Philippi, 1865^[1]
• Boreodromia Coquillett, 1903^[3]
• Ceratempis Melander, 1927^[3]
• Ephydrempis Saigusa, 1986^[4]
• Gloma Meigen, 1822^[5]
• Heleodromia Haliday, 1833
• Heterophlebus Philippi, 1865
• Niphogenia Melander, 1928^[6]
• Pseudheleodromia Wagner, 2001^[7]
• Rubistella Garrett-Jones, 1940^[8]
• Sabroskyella Wilder, 1982^[9]
• Sematopoda Collin, 1928^[10][3]
• Trichopeza Rondani, 1856