TABANIDAE
(horseflies, deerflies, gad flies, stouts, clegs, horsefly)

Subtaxon Example images Rank Featured
subtaxa
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Female (Click to open)
Genus 3 subtaxa 73 images 1 ident. refs
Female (Click to open)
Genus 4 subtaxa 89 images
Female (Click to open)
Genus 1 subtaxa 73 images 1 ident. refs
Female (Click to open)
Genus 3 subtaxa 67 images 1 ident. refs
Female (Click to open)
Genus 3 subtaxa 135 images
Taxonomic hierarchy:
FamilyTABANIDAE (horseflies, deerflies, gad flies, stouts, clegs, horsefly)
SuperfamilyTABANOIDEA (horseflies, snipe flies & water snipe flies)
InfraorderTabanomorpha (horseflies, snipe flies & soldier flies)
SuborderBRACHYCERA (short-horned 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)

Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Austen, E.E. 1906 *** Illustrations of British blood-sucking flies ***(Superseded) 74pp, British Museum (Natural History)
Falk, S. Diptera (flies) www.flickr.com/photos/63075200@N07/collections/72157629586945825/
Oldroyd, H. 1969 *** Diptera: Brachycera Sect (a) Tabanoidea and Asiloidea ***(Superseded) Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Vol IX. Part 4, 132pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London
Séguy, E. 1926 *** Diptères (Brachyhcéres) (Stratiomyiidae, Erinnidae, Coenomyiidae, Rhagionidae, Tabanidae, Codidae, Nemestrinidae, Mydaidae, Bombylidae, Therevidae, Omphralidae) ***(Superseded) Faune de France, Faune No 13, 308pp, Fédération Française des Sociétés de Science Naturel

TABANIDAE (horseflies, deerflies, gad flies, stouts, clegs, horsefly) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for TABANIDAE (horseflies, deerflies, gad flies, stouts, clegs, horsefly)
BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 0 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for TABANIDAE (horseflies, deerflies, gad flies, stouts, clegs, horsefly)
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