RHAGIONIDAE
(snipe flies, down-looker fly)

Subtaxon Example images Rank Featured
subtaxa
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Male (Click to open)
Genus 3 subtaxa 36 images 2 ident. refs
Male (Click to open)
Genus 5 subtaxa 140 images 1 ident. refs
Male (Click to open)
Genus 1 subtaxa 8 images
Taxonomic hierarchy:
FamilyRHAGIONIDAE (snipe flies, down-looker fly)
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
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Oldroyd, H. 1969 *** Diptera: Brachycera Sect (a) Tabanoidea and Asiloidea ***(Superseded) Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Vol IX.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Coenomyiidae, Rhagionidae, Tabanidae, Codidae, Nemestrinidae, Mydaidae, Bombylidae, Therevidae, Omphralidae) ***(Superseded) Faune de France, Faune No 13, 308pp, Fédération Française des Sociétés de Science Naturel
van Veen, M. Rhagionidae and Athericidae of Northwest Europe home.hccnet.nl/mp.van.veen/KEYS/Rhagionidae/Rhagionidae.html

RHAGIONIDAE (snipe flies, down-looker fly) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for RHAGIONIDAE (snipe flies, down-looker fly)
BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 1 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for RHAGIONIDAE (snipe flies, down-looker fly)
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