HIPPOBOSCOIDEA
(bat flies and flat flies)

Subtaxon				Example images	Rank	Featured subtaxa	No of images	No of ID refs
HIPPOBOSCIDAE “Forest” flies, flat flies, bird flies, keds					Family	5 subtaxa	39 images	2 ident. refs
NYCTERIBIIDAE bat flies					Family	1 subtaxa	2 images	1 ident. refs

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Superfamily	HIPPOBOSCOIDEA (bat flies and flat flies)
Infraorder	Schizophora - Calyptratae (an infraorder of flies)
Order	DIPTERA (two-winged flies)
Division	Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
Infraclass	Neoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
Subclass	PTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
Class	INSECTA (true insects)
Subphylum	HEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
Phylum	ARTHROPODA (arthropods)
Superphylum	ECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
Clade	Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
Subkingdom	EUMETAZOA (metazoans)
Kingdom	ANIMALIA (animals)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

HIPPOBOSCOIDEA is also a member of:
Invertebrates - Invertebrates (via Arthropoda)

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
()	Hutson, A.M.	1984	Keds, Flat-Flies and Bat-Flies (Diptera: Hippoboscidae and Nycteribiidae)	Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects , Vol 10. Part 7, 40pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London

HIPPOBOSCOIDEA (bat flies and flat flies) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

DIPTERA
(two-winged flies)

INSECTA
(true insects)

HEXAPODA
(insects and other 6-legged organisms)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for HIPPOBOSCOIDEA (bat flies and flat flies)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 106 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for HIPPOBOSCOIDEA (bat flies and flat flies)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

HIPPOBOSCOIDEA is also a member of:

Identification Works

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)