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

TABANIDAE (horseflies, deerflies, gad flies, stouts, clegs, horsefly) may be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

TABANIDAE (horseflies, deerflies, gad flies, stouts, clegs, horsefly) may be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Subtaxon Rank Featured
subtaxa		 No of
interactions		 No of
references
Atylotus
a genus of horseflies
Genus 1 subtaxa 2 references
Chrysops
deerflies
Genus 1 subtaxa 1 references
Haematopota
clegs
Genus 1 references
Hybomitra
a genus of horseflies
Genus 1 references
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)
NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for TABANIDAE (horseflies, deerflies, gad flies, stouts, clegs, horsefly)

Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Austen, E.E. 1906 Illustrations of British blood-sucking flies 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 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) 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:

General Literature

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may also be relevant to TABANIDAE (horseflies, deerflies, gad flies, stouts, clegs, horsefly):

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