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

Trichopeza
Trichopeza longicornis North Wales
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Empididae
Subfamily: Trichopezinae
Genus: Trichopeza
Rondani, 1856
Type species
Brachystoma longicornis
Meigen, 1822[1]

Species edit

References edit

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