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

Subtaxa

Rank Taxon #subtaxa #photos #macrophotos #refs
Genus Atylotus (a genus of horseflies) 2      
Species Atylotus latistriatus (Brauer) (Saltmarsh Horsefly)     10  
Species Atylotus rusticus (Linnaeus) (Four-lined Horsefly)   30 23 2
Genus Chrysops (deerflies) 2      
Species Chrysops caecutiens (L) (Splayed Deerfly)   4 25  
Species Chrysops relictus Meigen, 1820 (Twin-lobed Deerfly)     19  
Genus Haematopota (clegs) 1 8 35  
Genus Hybomitra (a genus of horseflies) 2 5 25  
Genus Tabanus (a genus of horseflies) 2 32 33  

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Austen, E.E., 1906 Illustrations of British blood-sucking flies
Oldroyd, H., 1969 Diptera: Brachycera Sect (a) Tabanoidea and Asiloidea
Séguy, E., 1926 Diptères (Brachyhcéres) (Stratiomyiidae, Erinnidae, Coenomyiidae, Rhagionidae, Tabanidae, Codidae, Nemestrinidae, Mydaidae, Bombylidae, Therevidae, Omphralidae)

BioInfo BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 3 general literature references to TABANIDAE (horseflies, deerflies, gad flies, stouts, clegs)

TABANIDAE may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
ANIMALIA
(animals)
ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)
INSECTA
(insects)
DIPTERA
(two-winged flies)
BRACHYCERA
(short-horned flies)

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