Diptera26 species

Family Stilt-legged Flies (Micropezidae)

Micropezidae is a family in the order Diptera. Browse 26 named species recorded in this family, or open an individual profile for its available identification and natural-history information.

Species in Micropezidae (26)

Compsobata univitta

Identification: The only orange Compsobata in the east.

Micropeza abnormis

Identification: Merritt & James remark that the species M. abnormis "differs from others in the genus Micropeza by having a black thorax and a white arista." The detailed species description by Cresson appears here .

Micropeza compar

Identification: A mostly pale species with one notopleural bristle and less black on the head than turcana or compar .

Micropeza corrigiolata

Identification: Morphologically distinct from North American native species (male lacks genital graspers, head and body nearly entirely black, dark rings on mid- and hind-femora). A Eurasian species, introduced recently. First recorded in 1993. "This

Micropeza ruficeps

Identification: The shape of the male sternite 5 appendage is distinctive.

Micropeza stigmatica

Identification: A predominantly tawny to reddish species with: two black bands on each femur; pale arista; and characteristic markings on the thorax. A detailed description by Cresson appears here (under Neriocephalus stigmaticus ). From the 1972 ref

Mitromyia feei

Identification: Much redder than the Taeniaptera spp. found in the US

Neria cibaria

Neria are long-legged and long-bodied flies, with four UK species. N. cibaria has a dark and dusted thorax, an all-orange frons and an arista that is dark at the base. Neria commutata also has a dark and dusted thorax but the frons darkens towards th

Neria commutata

Identification requires close examination of a specimen. Humid wooded areas along rivers and pools. Widespread in southern and central England and northern Scotland, but records are lacking from western Wales, northern England and Southern Scotland.

Taeniaptera trivittata

Said to be ant mimics . Missouri Department of Conservation-- Stilt-legged Flies : " Taeniaptera trivittata has a nifty way of mimicking ants: the otherwise clear wings are marked with black dots to resemble an ant's body shape."