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Tabanomorpha
The Brachyceran infraorder Tabanomorpha is a small group that consists primarily of two large families, the Tabanidae (horse and deer flies) and Rhagionidae (snipe flies), and an assortment of very small affiliated families, most of which have been (or could be, or sometimes are) included within the Rhagionidae. The Tabanomorpha is one of the two Brachyceran groups outside the Hippoboscoidea that contain blood-feeding (hematophagous) species, though they are not important disease vectors.
7 branches of this group, most-observed first
Horse and Deer Flies
familyTabanidae
Snipe Flies
familyRhagionidae
Water Snipe Flies
familyAthericidae
Pelecorhynchid Snipe Flies
familyPelecorhynchidae
Austroleptid Snipe Flies
familyAustroleptidae
Bolbomyiid Snipe Flies
familyBolbomyiidae
Oreoleptid Flies
familyOreoleptidae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 342679.