''Heptatoma'' is a genus of European

flies Flies are insects of the Order (biology), order Diptera, the name being derived from the Ancient Greek, Greek δι- ''di-'' "two", and πτερόν ''pteron'' "wing". Insects of this order use only a single pair of wings to fly, the hindwin ...

belonging to the subfamily

Tabaninae Tabaninae is a subfamily in the family Horse-fly, Tabanidae commonly known as horse flies . There are more than 3000 described species in Tabaninae. Tribes and genera Diachlorini *''Acanthocera'' Pierre-Justin-Marie Macquart, Macquart, 1834 *'' ...

This is effectively a

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, containing the

extant Extant or Least-concern species, least concern is the opposite of the word extinct. It may refer to: * Extant hereditary titles * Extant literature, surviving literature, such as ''Beowulf'', the oldest extant manuscript written in English * Exta ...

species '' Heptatoma pellucens'' (Fabricius, 1776):BioLib.cz: genus ''Heptatoma'' Meigen, 1803 (retrieved 8 August 2021)
/ref> of which there are two subspecies (as shown above). The locality of the

extinct Extinction is the termination of an organism by the death of its Endling, last member. A taxon may become Functional extinction, functionally extinct before the death of its last member if it loses the capacity to Reproduction, reproduce and ...

species †''Heptatoma oeningensis'' (Heer, 1865) is also shown.

Species

*'' Heptatoma oeningensis'' (Heer, 1864) *'' Heptatoma pellucens'' (

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, 1777)

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* {{Taxonbar, from=Q18109524, from2=Q1308039 Tabanidae Diptera of Europe Brachycera genera Taxa named by Johann Wilhelm Meigen