The Empidoidea (Diptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark

by Milan Chvála

"This is the fourth 'empidid' volume of the series 'Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica', covering the Scandinavian species of what is undoubtedly the most difficult Palaearctic genus of the family Empididae, the genus Hilara Meigen, 1822." "The format of the present volume is the same as that of the preceding three volumes. The General part refers only briefly to the morphology of the adults, and is followed by sections on the Classification, Life history (covering feeding habits, epigamic behaviour, phenology) and a section on Zoogeography. All these sections are arranged as in the preceding empidid volumes, including the Zoogeography section, in which the Scandinavian species are classified into the usual six distributional groups.". "The main part is the systematic treatment, which also follows the arrangement of the preceding empidid volumes. The 'Key to Fennoscandian species' includes several additional species which do not receive a separate treatment in the following systematic par