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Snipe Flies
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Snipe Flies

Rhagionidae

Rhagionidae or snipe flies are a small family of flies.

They get their name from the similarity of their often prominent proboscis to the beak of a snipe.

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5 branches of this family, most-observed first

Chrysopilinae

subfamilyChrysopilinae

Rhagioninae

subfamilyRhagioninae

Spaniinae

subfamilySpaniinae

Arthrocerinae

subfamilyArthrocerinae

Schizella

genusSchizella

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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 60470.