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:

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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

Handling & MagnificationAuthorYearTitleSource
Austen, E.E. 1906 *** Illustrations of British blood-sucking flies ***(Superseded) 74pp, British Museum (Natural History)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Oldroyd, H. 1969 *** Diptera: Brachycera Sect (a) Tabanoidea and Asiloidea ***(Superseded) Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Vol IX.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Coenomyiidae, Rhagionidae, Tabanidae, Codidae, Nemestrinidae, Mydaidae, Bombylidae, Therevidae, Omphralidae) ***(Superseded) Faune de France, Faune No 13, 308pp, Fédération Française des Sociétés de Science Naturel

TABANIDAE (horseflies, deerflies, gad flies, stouts, clegs, horsefly) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

General Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Foil, L.D. 1989 Tabanids as vectors of disease agents Parasitol Today Vol 5: 88-96.
Grayson, A. 2004 A re-examination of Tabanidae (Diptera) in the Wingate Collection Dipterists Digest (2nd Series) Vol 11, No. 2: 144-146.
Harvey, M.C. 2018 Provisional atlas of soldierflies and allies
Horváth, G., Majer, J., Horváth, L. Szivák, I. & Kriska, G. 2008 Ventral polarization vision in tabanids: horseflies and deerflies (Diptera: Tabanidae) are attracted to horizontally polarized light Naturwissenschaften Vol 95: 1093-1100.
Luger, S.W. 1990 Lyme disease transmitted by a biting fly New England J Med 322 (24): 1752.

Acid Mires

Boyce, D. 2004 A review of the invertebrate assemblages of acid mires Research Reports, Report no 592, 109pp, English Nature

Techniques

Short, K.E. & Thomas, A.W. 2012 Color restoration of Fly Eyes Fly Times Issue 48: 10-15.

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

BioImagesBioImages (www.bioimages.org.uk) has 437 images of TABANIDAE (horseflies, deerflies, gad flies, stouts, clegs, horsefly)
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