Rhaphium monotrichum Loew, 1850
(a long-legged fly)

Taxonomic hierarchy:
SpeciesRhaphium monotrichum (a long-legged fly)
GenusRhaphium (a genus of long-legged flies)
FamilyDOLICHOPODIDAE (long-legged flies)
SuperfamilyEMPIDOIDEA (dance flies, dagger flies, long-legged flies)
InfraorderEremoneura - Empidoidea (an infraorder of flies)
OrderDIPTERA (two-winged flies)
Division Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
InfraclassNeoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
SubclassPTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
ClassINSECTA (true insects)
SubphylumHEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)
Records of Rhaphium monotrichum (a long-legged fly) :
1: Rhaphium monotrichum (a long-legged fly)
20 May 2016 OSGR: SZ19 50° 40’ N, 1° 50’ W Vice County: South Hants (VC 11) England
male, swept from rushes growing in ditch on upper salt marsh
Image 1: Male - dorsal view - highly enlarged - silver backgroundImage 2: Male - head and thorax - dorsal view - magnified - silver backgroundImage 3: Male - head and thorax - lateral view - magnified - silver backgroundImage 4: Male - lateral view - close-up - magnified - silver backgroundImage 5: Male - lateral view - highly enlarged - silver backgroundImage 6: Male - lateral view - highly enlarged - silver background (2)Image 7: Male - ventral view - highly enlarged - silver backgroundImage 8: Male - genital lamellae - dorsal view - microscope low magnification - silver backgroundImage 9: Male - head - lateral view - microscope low magnification - silver background

Rhaphium monotrichum (a long-legged fly) may be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

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