# List of soldierflies and allies of Great Britain

The following is a list of the larger Brachycera recorded in Britain, this includes the soldierflies and their allies.

## Family Xylophagidae

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

## Family Athericidae

* Atherix ibis - yellow-legged water-snipefly
* Atherix marginata - black-legged water-snipefly
* Atrichops crassipes - least water-snipefly

## Family Rhagionidae

* Chrysopilus asiliformis - 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 - downlooker snipefly
* Rhagio strigosus - yellow downlooker snipefly
* Rhagio tringarius - marsh snipefly
* Spania nigra - liverwort snipefly
* Symphoromyia crassicornis - moorland snipefly
* Symphoromyia immaculata - limestone snipefly

## Family Tabanidae
### Subfamily Chrysopsinae

* Chrysops caecutiens - splayed deerfly
* Chrysops relictus - 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 - horse fly, cleg fly or cleg, sometimes notch-horned cleg
* Haematopota subcylindrica - Levels cleg
* Atylotus fulvus - golden horsefly
* Atylotus latistriatus - saltmarsh horsefly
* Atylotus plebeius - Cheshire horsefly
* Atylotus rusticus - 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 - large marsh horsefly
* Tabanus bovinus - pale giant horsefly
* Tabanus bromius - band-eyed brown horsefly
* Tabanus cordiger - plain-eyed grey horsefly
* Tabanus glaucopsis - downland horsefly
* Tabanus maculicornis - narrow-winged horsefly
* Tabanus miki - plain-eyed brown horsefly
* Tabanus sudeticus - dark giant horsefly

## Family Xylomyidae

* Solva marginata - drab wood-soldierfly
* Solva varia (Meigen, 1820)
* Xylomya maculata - wasp wood-soldierfly

## Family Stratiomyidae
### 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

* Clitellaria ephippium

### Subfamily Nemotelinae

* Nemotelus nigrinus - all-black snout
* Nemotelus notatus - flecked snout
* Nemotelus pantherinus - fen snout
* Nemotelus uliginosus - barred snout

### Subfamily Pachygastrinae

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

### Subfamily Sarginae

* Chloromyia formosa - 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
#### Tribe Oxycerini

* 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

#### Tribe Stratiomyini

* 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 - clubbed general
* Stratiomys longicornis - long-horned general
* Stratiomys potamida - banded general
* Stratiomys singularior - flecked general

## Family Acroceridae

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

## Family Bombyliidae
### Subfamily Bombyliinae

* Bombylius canescens - western bee-fly
* Bombylius discolor - dotted bee-fly
* Bombylius major - 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

### Subfamily Phthiriinae

* Phthiria pulicaria - flea bee-fly

## Family Therevidae

* 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 cinifera - large plain stiletto
* Thereva fulva - small plain stiletto
* Thereva handlirschi - golden Scottish stiletto
* Thereva inornata - light Scottish stiletto
* Thereva nobilitata - common stiletto
* Thereva plebeja - crochet-hooked stiletto
* Thereva strigata - cliff stiletto
* Thereva unica - twin-spot stiletto synonym bipunctata
* Thereva valida - dark northern stiletto

## Family Scenopinidae

* Scenopinus fenestralis - house windowfly
* Scenopinus niger - forest windowfly

## Family Asilidae
### Subfamily Asilinae

* 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
* 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

* Leptarthrus brevirostris - slender-footed robberfly
* Leptarthrus vitripennis - false slender-footed robberfly

### Subfamily Laphriinae

* Choerades gilvus - ginger robberfly
* Choerades marginata - golden-haired robberfly
* Laphria flava - bumblebee robberfly

### Subfamily Leptogastrinae

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

### Subfamily Stenopogoninae

* Dioctria atricapilla - 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