Opetiidae
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Diptera |
Infraorder: | Muscomorpha |
Section: | Aschiza |
Superfamily: | Phoroidea |
Family: | Opetiidae Rondani, 1856 |
The Opetiidae or flat-footed flies are members of a family of flies (insects of the Order Diptera).[1] The family contains only five extant species in two genera, , and . the remaining taxa are known only from fossils.
Family description[]
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wing venation
See [1]
Classification[]
Opetiidae was formerly in Platypezidae.
- † Coram, Jarzembowski & Mostovski, 2000[7]
- † Meunier, 1893[8]
- † Meunier, 1893[8]
- † Zhang, 1987[2]
- † Amorim et al, 2018[9]
- † Amorim et al, 2018 [9]
References[]
- ^ Chandler, P.J. (2001). Flat-Footed Flies: (Diptera Opetiidae and Platypezidae) of Europe (Print) (Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica 36 ed.). Brill Academic Pub. pp. 1–278. ISBN 978-9004120235.
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(help) - ^ a b c d e Zhang, J.-F. (1987). "Four new genera of Platypezidae". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 26: 595–603.
- ^ a b Meigen, J. W. (1830). "Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europaischen zweiflugeligen Insekten". Sechster Theil. Schulz, Hamm.: xi + 401 +[3].
- ^ Shatalkin, A. I. (1985). "A survey of Platypezidae (Diptera) of the USSR fauna". Sbornik Trud. Zool. Muz. MGU. 23: 69–136.
- ^ a b Saigusa, T. (1963). "Systematic studies of Japanese Platypezidae. I. Genus Opetia Meigen". Sieboldia. 3: 105–108.
- ^ Statz, G. (1940). "Neue Dipteren (Brachycera et Cyclorrhapha) aus dem Oberoligozan von Rott". Palaeontographica A. 91: 120–174, pl. 19–27.
- ^ a b Coram, R.; Jarzembowski, E. A.; Mostovski, M. B. (2000). "Two rare eremoneuran flies (Diptera: Empididae and Opetiidae) from the Purbeck Limestone group". Paleontol. J. 34 (Suppl. 3): 370–373.
- ^ a b Meunier, F. (1893). "Note sur les Platypezidae de l'ambre tertiaire". Bull. Soc. Zool. France. 18: 230–234.
- ^ a b Amorim, Dalton de Souza; Silva, Vera Cristina; Brown, Brian Victor (21 February 2018). "Puyehuemyia chandleri, gen. nov., sp. nov. (Diptera, Opetiidae) : remnant of a Cretaceous biota in Chile". American Museum Novitates (3892): 1–27. doi:10.1206/3892.1. hdl:2246/6845. S2CID 90294385.
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