Hilarigona sp. (Chile)
Rhamphomyia longicauda, male (USA)Hilara mantis, male (Japan)Empis anthophila, female (USA)Macrostomus smithi, female (Guyana)Rhamphomyia spirifera, male (Japan)
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  About Dance Flies This website is the official site for the project proposal "Sexual characters and diversification in empidine dance flies (Diptera: Empididae: Empidinae)" submitted to the US National Science Foundation July 2007.

The project goals are to:
1) Estimate the phylogeny of the Empidinae using morphology and DNA sequence data
2) Trace the evolution of mating-related characters (behavior and morphology)
3) Investigate the effects of these characters on rates of speciation

For more information, contact the principal investigators:
Brian Wiegmann
Jeffrey Cumming
Christophe Daugeron
Kenneth Collins
Isaac Winkler (postdoc)
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