Hercostomus Loew, 1857
(a genus of long-legged flies)

Hercostomus (a genus of long-legged flies) may be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Hercostomus (a genus of long-legged flies) may be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Taxonomic hierarchy:
GenusHercostomus (a genus of long-legged flies)
FamilyDOLICHOPODIDAE (long-legged 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 Hercostomus (a genus of long-legged flies)

Identification Works

Handling & MagnificationAuthorYearTitleSource
Drake, M. (ed) Dolichopodid course handout

Hercostomus (a genus of long-legged flies) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

General Works

AuthorYearTitleSource

Amber

Grichanov, I.Ya. 1997 Prohercostomus, a new subgenus of the genus Hercostomus Loew Diptera, Dolichopodidae from Baltic amber Paleontological Journal Vol 31 (5): 520-522.

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may also be relevant to Hercostomus (a genus of long-legged flies):

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