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    Rhagionidae or snipe flies are a small family of flies. They get their name from the similarity of their often prominent proboscis that looks like the...
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    the family Rhagionidae, possibly in a subfamily Vermileoninae. Their biology and morphology are so markedly distinct from the main Rhagionidae sensu stricto...
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    primarily of two large families, the Tabanidae (horse and deer flies) and Rhagionidae (snipe flies), and an assortment of very small affiliated families, most...
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  • Spania is a genus of snipe flies of the family Rhagionidae. Spania are small - 2 to 3.0 mm, dark brown to black in colour. Spania americana Johnson, 1923...
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    in the family Bolbomyiidae; until 2010, it was placed in the family Rhagionidae. They are a small 2 to 3.5 mm, brown or black in color, with lightly...
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    Chrysopilus laetus (category Rhagionidae)
    Chrysopilus laetus is a Palearctic species of snipe fly in the family Rhagionidae. Zetterstedt, J.W. (1842). Diptera Scandinaviae disposita et descripta...
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    Rhagionoidea Austroleptidae Bolbomyiidae Rhagionidae (snipe flies) Tabanoidea Athericidae (water snipe flies) Oreoleptidae Pelecorhynchidae Tabanidae...
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  • Gertrude Ricardo (11 September 1862 - 31 October 1950) was a British entomologist and taxonomist who specialised in Diptera, particularly the families...
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    Rhagionoidea Austroleptidae Bolbomyiidae Rhagionidae (snipe flies) Tabanoidea Athericidae (water snipe flies) Oreoleptidae Pelecorhynchidae Tabanidae...
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  • in the family Austroleptidae; until 2010, it was placed in the family Rhagionidae. They are small to moderately sized flies of around 3 to 7.7 mm. The...
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