Kingdom Animalia Section Aschiza Phylum Arthropoda Order Fly | Class Insecta Superfamily Platypezoidea Rank Family | |
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Similar Megamerinidae, Platypezidae, Acartophthalmus, Hilarimorphidae, Pseudopomyzidae | ||
The Opetiidae or flat-footed flies are members of a family of flies of the Order Diptera. The family contains only four extant species in one genus, Opetia, and the remaining taxa are known only from fossils.
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Family description
See [1]
Classification
Opetiidae was formerly in Platypezidae.
Images
Diptera.info
References
Opetiidae Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA