Empis (Kritempis) livida Linnaeus, 1758 Empis livida Linnaeus, 1758: 127 (original description). A detailed list of the synonyms of this species can be found in the Palaearctic catalogue (Chvála & Wagner 1989: 258). Diagnosis. Palpus yellowish with fine setae; labrum 2 x head height. Scutum distinctly greyish brown with 3 blackish stripes on dorsocentrals and acrostichals; scutellar margin brownish; laterotergite with fan of black, strong, long anterior and brownish, fine, shorter posterior setae. Coxae, femora, tibiae entirely yellow; coxae with black setae. Wing with veins M 1 and M 2 distinctly abbreviated, brownish in male, hyaline in female. Male abdomen yellowish brown. Female with fore femur with short anterior pennation; hind femur with short posteroventral pennation; mid tibia somewhat S-shaped in dorsal view with posteroventral group of short spine-like setae basally; abdomen subshiny greyish. Material. About 300 specimens from different parts of France, as well as 16 specimens from Algeria: 5 ♂, 2 ♀♀ “Rouiba, Dept. d’Alger, J. Surcouf, VI. 1923 ”; 5 ♂, 4 ♀ ♀ “Algérie, Chellala, J. Surcouf, 1921”. Chorotype. European with an extension in Maghreb. Empis livida is known from the west Palaearctic and here firstly recorded from North Africa (Algeria). Remark. Detailed descriptions and illustrations of E. livida Linnaeus can be found in Collin (1961: 473, figs 169-170) and Chvála (1994: 45, figs 51–53).

Published as part of Daugeron, Christophe, 2009, Systematics of the Euro-Mediterranean Empis (Kritempis) (Diptera: Empididae: Empidinae) *, pp. 531-544 in Zootaxa 2318 on page 536