Alternative spelling: Empedidae
Synonym: Brachystomatidae Melander 1908
Parent taxon: Empidoidea according to E. Wahlberg and K. A. Johanson 2018
See also Carpenter 1992, Cockerell 1917, Cockerell 1921, Cockerell 1921, Kovalev 1986, Sinclair et al. 2011, Sinclair and Cumming 2006 and Wiegmann et al. 2011
Sister taxa: Atelestidae, Dolichopodidae, Ecommocydromia, Hybotidae, Megeana, Ragadidae
Subtaxa: Acallomyia Basilorhagio Brachystomatinae Burmitempis Clinocerinae Empidinae Hasmona Hilarites Oustaletimyia Progloma Protempidinae Protoedalea Tachydromia stilpon Thirza
Type: Empis
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Tanzania (1 collection)
• Miocene of Germany (1), Japan (1), New Zealand (1), Spain (2)
• Oligocene of France (4), Germany (3)
• Eocene of China (1), Germany (1), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (6), Ukraine (1), United States (9: Colorado)
• Cretaceous of Botswana (1), Canada (1: Manitoba), China (2), Mongolia (1), Myanmar (1), the Russian Federation (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (1: New Jersey)
• Jurassic of Kazakhstan (4), Mongolia (1)
Total: 46 collections including 112 occurrences