Tanypezidae

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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Diptera Suborder: Brachycera Section: Schizophora Subsection: Acalyptratae Superfamily: Diopsoidea Family: Tanypezidae

Tanypezidae or stilt-legged flies is a family of true flies (Diptera). The Tanypezidae is a very small family found in the Nearctic Palaearctic and Neotropic zoogeographic zones.

[edit] Biology

Hardly anything is known of the biology of the family. The adults live in damp forests.

[edit] Family Description

These are small (5 to 7 mm long) flies, slender and long-legged and sometimes with patches of silvery tomentum on the body. See[1]