Athericidae

Taxobox
name = Athericidae

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image_caption = "Atherix ibis"
image_width = 225px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
subphylum = Hexapoda
classis = Insecta
subclassis = Pterygota
infraclassis = Neoptera
superordo = Endopterygota|
ordo = Diptera
subordo = Brachycera
infraordo = Tabanomorpha
superfamilia = Tabanoidea
familia = Athericidae
familia_authority =
synonyms =
subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision = *"Atherix" Meigen, 1803
*"Atrichops" Verrall, 1909
*"Ibisia" Róndani, 1856

This is a small family of flies know 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. [cite book|author=Stubbs, A. and Drake, M.|year=2001 |title=British Soldierflies and Their Allies: A Field Guide to the Larger British Brachycera|pages=512 pp|publisher=British Entomological & Natural History Society |language=English|isbn=1899935045]

ee also

List of soldierflies and allies recorded in Britain

References