<< Go back one level - Platyptera
| system | Vitae - living organisms |
| Opisthokonta Cavalier-Smith, 1987b | |
| domain | Eukaryota Whittaker & Margulis, 1978 - lifeforms with nucletic cells |
| superregnum | Unikonta |
| kingdom | Animalia Linnaeus, 1758 - animals |
| subregnum | Eumetazoa Butschli, 1910 |
| divisio | Bilateria Hatschek, 1888 |
| subdivisio | Protostomia Grobben, 1908 - protostomes |
| phylum | Arthropoda - arthropods |
| subphylum | Hexapoda Blainville, 1816 |
| class | Insecta - insects |
| subclass | Pterygota |
| infraclass | Neoptera Martynov, 1923 |
| cohors | Holometabola |
| order | Diptera Linnaeus, 1758 - true flies, mosquitoes and gnats |
| suborder | Brachycera |
| infraorder | Asilomorpha |
| superfamily | Empidoidea |
| family | Empididae - dance flies |
| subfamily | Empidinae |
| genus | Empis Linnaeus, 1758 |
| subgenus | Platyptera Meigen, 1803 |
| species | Empis livida Linnaeus, 1758 - Dance fly |