Family Xylophagidae

Xylophagidae

The Brachyceran infraorder Xylophagomorpha is a small group that consists solely of the family Xylophagidae, which presently contains subfamilies that were sometimes considered to be two small related families...

• Xylophagus ater - common awl-fly
• Xylophagus cinctus - red-belted awl-fly
• Xylophagus junki - Glenmore awl-fly

Family Athericidae

Athericidae

Athericidae is a small family of flies known as water snipe-flies; they used to be placed in the family Rhagionidae. The adults mostly feed on nectar but some species feed on mammal blood.- External Links :*...

• Atherix ibis
  Atherix ibis
  Atherix ibis is a species of 'ibis flies' belonging to the family Athericidae, a small family very similar to Rhagionidae .This species is present in most of Europe and in Nearctic ecozone....
  
  - yellow-legged water-snipefly
• Atrichops crassipes - least water-snipefly
• Ibisia marginata
  Ibisia marginata
  Ibisia marginata is a species of 'ibis flies' belonging to the family Athericidae, a small family very similar to Rhagionidae . This species is present in most of Europe....
  
  - black-legged water-snipefly

Family Rhagionidae

Rhagionidae

Rhagionidae or snipe flies are a small family of flies containing 21 genera.-Description:Rhagionidae are medium-sized or large flies with slender bodies and stilt-like legs. The mouthparts are adapted for piercing and many species are haematophagous as adults, while others are predatory on other...

• Chrysopilus asiliformis
  Chrysopilus asiliformis
  Chrysopilus asiliformis, the 'little snipefly', is a species of 'snipe flies' belonging to the family Rhagionidae.This species is present in most of Europe....
  
  - little snipefly
• Chrysopilus cristatus - black snipefly
• Chrysopilus erythrophthalmus - silver-banded snipefly
• Chrysopilus laetus - tree snipefly
• Ptiolina nigra - pale-fringed moss-snipefly
• Ptiolina obscura - black-fringe moss-snipefly
• Rhagio annulatus - wood snipefly
• Rhagio lineola - small fleck-winged snipefly
• Rhagio notatus - large fleck-winged snipefly
• Rhagio scolopaceus
  Rhagio scolopaceus
  Rhagio scolopaceus is a species of flies from the family Rhagionidae. It is also known as the downlooker snipefly. It is the type species of the genus Rhagio....
  
  - downlooker snipefly
• Rhagio strigosus - yellow downlooker snipefly
• Rhagio tringarius - marsh snipefly
• Spania nigra - liverwort snipefly
• Symphoromyia crassicornis - moorland snipefly
• Symphoromyia immaculata - limestone snipefly

Subfamily Chrysopsinae

• Chrysops caecutiens - splayed deerfly
• Chrysops relictus
  Chrysops relictus
  The adult twin-lobed deerfly, Chrysops relictus, is a largish European fly of about 8 to 10.5mm length, The larvae feed upon organic matter in damp soils, and are termed hydrobionts in that they inhabit areas of high water content....
  
  - twin-lobed deerfly
• Chrysops sepulcralis - black deerfly
• Chrysops viduatus - square-spot deerfly

Subfamily Tabaninae

• Haematopota bigoti - big-spotted cleg
• Haematopota crassicornis - black-horned cleg
• Haematopota grandis - long-horned cleg
• Haematopota pluvialis
  Haematopota pluvialis
  Haematopota pluvialis, the Common Horse Fly or 'Notch-horned Cleg Fly', is a species belonging to the family Tabanidae subfamily Tabaninae.This species is present in most of Europe, in the Near East and in eastern Palearctic ecozone....
  
  - horse flyhttp://piclib.nhm.ac.uk/piclib/www/image.php?img=55093&search=fly, cleg fly or cleghttp://www.uknature.co.uk/H.pluvialis-info.htmlhttp://www.eol.org/pages/759381, sometimes notch-horned cleghttp://www.bioimages.org.uk/html/t1364.htm
• Haematopota subcylindrica - Levels cleg
• Atylotus fulvus - golden horsefly
• Atylotus latistriatus - saltmarsh horsefly
• Atylotus plebejus - Cheshire horsefly
• Atylotus rusticus
  Atylotus rusticus
  Atylotus rusticus is a horse-fly in the genus Atylotus. It is found in Europe, Asia and North Africa..Atylotus rusticus belongs to the group of insects known as Endopterygota , which go through metamorphosis during their life. The larvae are radically different from the full-grown insects...
  
  - four-lined horsefly
• Hybomitra bimaculata - hairy-legged horsefly
• Hybomitra ciureai - Levels yellow-horned horsefly
• Hybomitra distinguenda - bright horsefly
• Hybomitra expollicata - striped horsefly
• Hybomitra lurida - broad-headed horsefly
• Hybomitra micans - black-legged horsefly
• Hybomitra montana - slender-horned horsefly
• Hybomitra muehlfeldi - broadland horsefly
• Hybomitra solstitialis - scarce forest horsefly
• Tabanus autumnalis
  Tabanus autumnalis
  Tabanus autumnalis, the large marsh horsefly, is a medium sized species of biting horse-fly. It is somewhat scarce compared to T. bromius and T. bovinus. This species shows slightly more of a preference for coastal marsh than some of the other European Tabanus, sometime even found in saltmashes....
  
  - large marsh horsefly
• Tabanus bovinus
  Tabanus bovinus
  Tabanus bovinus, sometimes called the pale giant horse-fly, is a species of biting horse-fly. As the name suggests, it prefers bovine animals as the source of blood, although it may bite other kind of mammals as well. The insect is relatively large for a horse-fly, adults usually being...
  
  - pale giant horsefly
• Tabanus bromius
  Tabanus bromius
  Tabanus bromius, sometimes called the band-eyed brown horsefly, is a species of biting horseflies. It is one of the smaller European Tabanus, at about body length....
  
  - band-eyed brown horsefly
• Tabanus cordiger
  Tabanus cordiger
  Tabanus cordiger also known as the plain-eyed grey horsefly is a species of biting horse-fly....
  
  - plain-eyed grey horsefly
• Tabanus glaucopsis
  Tabanus glaucopsis
  Tabanus glaucopis also known as the downland horsefly is a species of biting horse-fly....
  
  - downland horsefly
• Tabanus maculicornis
  Tabanus maculicornis
  Tabanus maculicornis also known as the narrow-winged horsefly is a species of biting horse-fly....
  
  - narrow-winged horsefly
• Tabanus miki
  Tabanus miki
  Tabanus miki also known as the plain-eyed brown horsefly is a species of biting horse-fly....
  
  - plain-eyed brown horsefly
• Tabanus sudeticus
  Tabanus sudeticus
  Tabanus sudeticus also known as the dark giant horsefly is a species of biting horse-fly. It is the heaviest fly in Europe....
  
  - dark giant horsefly

Family Xylomyidae

Xylomyidae

Xylomyidae or wood soldier flies is a family of Diptera associated with dead or dying wood .-Genera:*Solva*Solva marginata *Solva minuta*Solva nigritibialis*Solva varia*Xylomya...

• Solva marginata
  Solva marginata
  Solva marginata also known as the drab wood-soldierfly is a species of soldier fly in the family Xylomyidae, the "wood soldier flies".-Description:...
  
  - drab wood-soldierfly
• Solva varia (Meigen, 1820)
• Xylomya maculata - wasp wood-soldierfly

Subfamily Beridinae

• Beris chalybata - murky-legged black legionnaire
• Beris clavipes - scarce orange legionnaire
• Beris fuscipes - short-horned black legionnaire
• Beris geniculata - long-horned black legionnaire
• Beris morrisii - yellow-legged black legionnaire
• Beris vallata - common orange legionnaire
• Chorisops nagatomii - bright four-spined legionnaire
• Chorisops tibialis - dull four-spined legionnaire

Subfamily Clitellariinae

• Nemotelus nigrinus - all-black snout
• Nemotelus notatus - flecked snout
• Nemotelus pantherinus - fen snout
• Nemotelus uliginosus - barred snout
• Oxycera analis - dark-winged soldier
• Oxycera dives - round-spotted major
• Oxycera fallenii - Irish major
• Oxycera leonina - twin-spotted major
• Oxycera morrisii - white-barred soldier
• Oxycera nigricornis - delicate soldier
• Oxycera pardalina - hill soldier
• Oxycera pygmaea - pygmy soldier
• Oxycera rara - four-barred major
• Oxycera terminata - yellow-tipped soldier
• Oxycera trilineata - three-lined soldier
• Vanoyia tenuicornis - long-horned soldier

Subfamily Pachygastrinae

• Eupachygaster tarsalis - sarce black
• Neopachygaster meromelas - silver-strips black
• Pachygaster atra - dark-winged black
• Pachygaster leachii - yellow-legged black
• Zabrachia tenella - pine black

Subfamily Sarginae

• Chloromyia formosa
  Chloromyia formosa
  Chloromyia formosa is a species of 'Soldier Flies' belonging to the family Stratiomyidae.This species is present in most of Europe, in the Near East, in the Nearctic ecozone and in North Africa....
  
  - broad centurion
• Microchrysa cyaneiventris - black gem
• Microchrysa flavicornis - green gem
• Microchrysa polita - black-horned gem
• Sargus bipunctatus - twin-spot centurion
• Sargus cuprarius - clouded centurion
• Sargus flavipes - yellow-legged centurion
• Sargus iridatus - iridescent centurion

Subfamily Stratiomyinae

• Odontomyia angulata - orange-horned green colonel
• Odontomyia argentata - silver colonel
• Odontomyia hydroleon - barred green colonel
• Odontomyia ornata - ornate brigadier
• Odontomyia tigrina - black colonel
• Oplodontha viridula - common green colonel
• Stratiomys chamaeleon
  Stratiomys chamaeleon
  Stratiomys chamaeleon, the clubbed general, is a European species of soldier fly....
  
  - clubbed general
• Stratiomys longicornis - long-horned general
• Stratiomys potamida - banded general
• Stratiomys singularior - flecked general

Family Acroceridae

Acroceridae

Acroceridae is a small family of odd looking flies most closely related to Nemestrinidae. There are about 520 species in 50 genera. They are characterized by a humpbacked appearance and a small head, sometimes with a long proboscis for nectar. As such, acrocerids are commonly known as small-headed...

• Ogcodes gibbosus - smart-banded hunchback
• Ogcodes pallipes - black-rimmed hunchback
• Paracrocera orbiculus - top-horned hunchback

Subfamily Bombyliinae

• Bombylius canescens - western bee-fly
• Bombylius discolor - dotted bee-fly
• Bombylius major
  Bombylius major
  The large bee fly, Bombylius major, is a bee mimic. The eggs are flicked by the adult female toward the entrance of the underground nests of solitary bees and wasps...
  
  - dark-edged bee-fly
• Bombylius minor - heath bee-fly

Subfamily Exoprosopinae

• Thyridanthrax fenestratus - mottled bee-fly
• Villa cingulata - downland villa
• Villa modesta - dune villa
• Villa venusta - heath villa

Family Therevidae

Therevidae

Therevidae are a family of Diptera Asiloidea commonly known as stiletto flies. The family contains about 1,600 described species worldwide, most diverse in arid and semi-arid regions with sandy soils...

• Acrosathe annulata - coastal silver-stiletto
• Cliorismia rustica - southern silver-stiletto
• Dialineura anilis - swollen silver-stiletto
• Pandivirilia melaleuca - forest silver-stiletto
• Spiriverpa lunulata - northern silver-stiletto
• Thereva bipunctata - twin-spot stiletto
• Thereva cinifera - large plain stiletto
• Thereva fulva - small plain stiletto
• Thereva handlirschi - golden Scottish stiletto
• Thereva inornata - light Scottish stiletto
• Thereva nobilitata
  Thereva nobilitata
  Thereva nobilitata is a species of flies from the family Therevidae. It is commonly known as the common stiletto....
  
  - common stiletto
• Thereva plebeja - crochet-hooked stiletto
• Thereva strigata - cliff stiletto
• Thereva valida - dark northern stiletto

Family Scenopinidae

Scenopinidae

Scenopinidae or window flies are a small family of flies , distributed worldwide. In buildings they are often taken at windows, hence the common name window flies....

• Scenopinus fenestralis
  Scenopinus fenestralis
  Scenopinus fenestralis, the window fly, is a member of the Scenopidae family of flies, found in Europe, including Central Europe and Southern England. It is somewhat inactive, small and black, and tends to be found resting on the windows of old buildings and outhouses...
  
  - house windowfly
• Scenopinus niger - forest windowfly

Subfamily Asilinae

Asilinae

Asilinae is a large subfamily of the family Asilidae. It includes over 100 genera.-Systematics:Asilinae Genus *Asilus Linnaeus 1758 *Dysmachus Loew, 1860*Eccritosia*Efferia*Eutolmus Loew, 1848*Machimus Loew, 1849...

• Asilus crabroniformis - hornet robberfly
• Dysmachus trigonus - fan-bristled robberfly
• Eutolmus rufibarbis - golden-tabbed robberfly
• Machimus arthriticus - breck robberfly
• Machimus atricapillus - kite-tailed robberfly
• Machimus cingulatus - brown heath robberfly
• Machimus cowini - Manx robber fly
  Manx robber fly
  The Manx robber fly, is one of the 7,100 species of robber fly or Asilidae known throughout the world, and one of 28 asilids known to occur in the British Isles.- Distribution and habitat :...
  
  
• Machimus rusticus - downland robberfly
• Neoitamus cothurnatus - scarce awl robberfly
• Neoitamus cyanurus - common awl robberfly
• Neomochtherus pallipes - Devon red-legged robberfly
• Pamponerus germanicus - pied-winged robberfly
• Philonicus albiceps - dune robberfly
• Rhadiurgus variabilis - northern robberfly

Subfamily Dasypogoninae

Dasypogoninae

This is a large subfamilly of robberflies-Systematics:List of genera found in the subfamily Dasypogoninae:*Tribe Damalini:**Bromleyus **Haplopogon **Holcocephala **Orrhodops*Tribe Dasypogonini:**Comantella **Cophura...

• Leptarthus brevirostris - slender-footed robberfly
• Leptarthus vitripennis - false slender-footed robberfly

Subfamily Laphriinae

• Choerades gilvus - ginger robberfly
• Choerades marginatus - golden-haired robberfly
• Laphria flava - bumblebee robberfly

Subfamily Leptogastrinae

• Leptogaster cylindrica - striped slender robberfly
• Leptogaster guttiventris - dashed slender robberfly

Subfamily Stenopogoninae

• Dioctria atricapilla
  Dioctria atricapilla
  The violet black-legged robber fly, Dioctria atricapilla is a species of robber fly in the subfamily Dasypogoninae....
  
  - violet black-legged robberfly
• Dioctria baumhaueri - stripe-legged robberfly
• Dioctria cothurnata - scarce red-legged robberfly
• Dioctria linearis - small yellow-legged robberfly
• Dioctria oelandica - orange-legged robberfly
• Dioctria rufipes - common red-legged robberfly
• Lasiopogon cinctus - spring heath robberfly