Opetiidae

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, Opetia, and Puyehuemyia. the remaining taxa are known only from fossils.

Opetiidae
Opetia nigra Meigen, 1830
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Infraorder: Muscomorpha
Section: Aschiza
Superfamily: Phoroidea
Family: Opetiidae
Rondani, 1856

Family description
wing venation

See

Classification

Opetiidae was formerly in Platypezidae.

  • †Lithopetia Zhang, 1987[2]
    • †Lithopetia hirsuta Zhang, 1987[2]
  • Opetia Meigen, 1830[3]
    • Opetia aberrans Shatalkin, 1985[4]
    • Opetia alticola Saigusa, 1963[5]
    • Opetia anomalipennis Saigusa, 1963[5]
    • †Opetia atra Statz, 1940[6]
    • Opetia nigra Meigen, 1830[3]
  • †Opetiala Coram, Jarzembowski & Mostovski, 2000[7]
  • †Opetiala shatalkini Coram, Jarzembowski & Mostovski, 2000[7]
  • †Oppenheimiella Meunier, 1893[8]
  • †Oppenheimiella baltica Meunier, 1893[8]
  • †Pseudopetia Zhang, 1987[2]
  • †Pseudopetia exilis Zhang, 1987[2]
  • †Pseudopetia grandis Zhang, 1987[2]
  • †Puyehuemyia Amorim et al, 2018[9]
    • †Puyehuemyia chandleri Amorim et al, 2018 [9]

References
  1. Chandler, P.J. (2001). Flat-Footed Flies: (Diptera Opetiidae and Platypezidae) of Europe (Print) |format= requires |url= (help) (Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica 36 ed.). Brill Academic Pub. pp. 1–278. ISBN 978-9004120235.
  2. Zhang, J.-F. (1987). "Four new genera of Platypezidae". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 26: 595–603.
  3. Meigen, J. W. (1830). "Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europaischen zweiflugeligen Insekten". Sechster Theil. Schulz, Hamm.: xi + 401 +[3].
  4. Shatalkin, A. I. (1985). "A survey of Platypezidae (Diptera) of the USSR fauna". Sbornik Trud. Zool. Muz. MGU. 23: 69–136.
  5. Saigusa, T. (1963). "Systematic studies of Japanese Platypezidae. I. Genus Opetia Meigen". Sieboldia. 3: 105–108.
  6. Statz, G. (1940). "Neue Dipteren (Brachycera et Cyclorrhapha) aus dem Oberoligozan von Rott". Palaeontographica A. 91: 120–174, pl. 19–27.
  7. 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.
  8. Meunier, F. (1893). "Note sur les Platypezidae de l'ambre tertiaire". Bull. Soc. Zool. France. 18: 230–234.
  9. 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). hdl:2246/6845.

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