Dance flies (Empididae)

One record, Bukit Gemok, Tawau, 2008

The family names on this page are the photographer's own, from his old fly pages; they have not been checked by a specialist or on iNaturalist. Dates come from the camera or from the date printed on the photograph.

Dance flies are small predatory flies; in some species the males gather in swarms that look like a dance.

Order Diptera · Family Empididae (dance flies) — the photographer's label, not checked.

14 September 2008 — Bukit Gemok

A slender dark fly with long legs and a reddish head on the bark of a fallen log, labelled 14-9-2008 Bukit Gemok. — 14 Sep 2008, 13:57, on a fallen log.

Canon PowerShot A460. The old Empididae folder held this photograph together with the robber fly photographs, which are now on the robber fly page. The insect is small in the frame, so the family is not certain.

Related: Flies of Borneo · One pair of wings · Insects of Borneo
Photographs © Wong Fook Yee. Family facts: Wikipedia articles on each family. Page written 14 October 2026.