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The '''Opetiidae''' or '''flat-footed flies''' are members of a family of [[fly|flies]] (insects of the Order Diptera).<ref name=Chandler2000>{{cite book|last1=Chandler|first1=P.J.|title=Flat-Footed Flies: (Diptera Opetiidae and Platypezidae) of Europe|date=2001|publisher=Brill Academic Pub|isbn=978-9004120235|pages=1–278|edition=Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica 36}}</ref> The family contains only five extant species in two genera, ''[[Opetia]]'', and ''[[Puyehuemyia]]''<ref name="Amorim Silva Brown 2018">{{cite journal | last1=Amorim | first1=Dalton de Souza | last2=Silva | first2=Vera Cristina | last3=Brown | first3=Brian Victor |title=''Puyehuemyia chandleri'', gen. nov., sp. nov. (Diptera, Opetiidae) : remnant of a Cretaceous biota in Chile. | url=https://archive.org/details/puyehuemyiachan00amor |journal=American Museum Novitates |issue=3892 |date=21 February 2018 | pages=1–27 | doi=10.1206/3892.1 |hdl=2246/6845| s2cid=90294385 }}</ref> |
The '''Opetiidae''' or '''flat-footed flies''' are members of a family of [[fly|flies]] (insects of the Order Diptera).<ref name=Chandler2000>{{cite book|last1=Chandler|first1=P.J.|title=Flat-Footed Flies: (Diptera Opetiidae and Platypezidae) of Europe|date=2001|publisher=Brill Academic Pub|isbn=978-9004120235|pages=1–278|edition=Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica 36}}</ref> The family contains only five extant species in two genera, ''[[Opetia]]'', and ''[[Puyehuemyia]]''.<ref name="Amorim Silva Brown 2018">{{cite journal | last1=Amorim | first1=Dalton de Souza | last2=Silva | first2=Vera Cristina | last3=Brown | first3=Brian Victor |title=''Puyehuemyia chandleri'', gen. nov., sp. nov. (Diptera, Opetiidae) : remnant of a Cretaceous biota in Chile. | url=https://archive.org/details/puyehuemyiachan00amor |journal=American Museum Novitates |issue=3892 |date=21 February 2018 | pages=1–27 | doi=10.1206/3892.1 |hdl=2246/6845| s2cid=90294385 }}</ref> The remaining taxa are known only from fossils. |
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==Family description== |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Infraorder: | Muscomorpha |
| Section: | Aschiza |
| Superfamily: | Platypezoidea |
| 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, Opetia, and Puyehuemyia.[2] The remaining taxa are known only from fossils.
Family description
See [1]
Classification
Opetiidae was formerly in Platypezidae.
- †Lithopetia Zhang, 1987[3]
- †Lithopetia hirsuta Zhang, 1987[3]
- Opetia Meigen, 1830[4]
- Opetia aberrans Shatalkin, 1985[5]
- Opetia alticola Saigusa, 1963[6]
- Opetia anomalipennis Saigusa, 1963[6]
- †Opetia atra Statz, 1940[7]
- Opetia nigra Meigen, 1830[4]
- †Opetiala Coram, Jarzembowski & Mostovski, 2000[8]
- †Opetiala shatalkini Coram, Jarzembowski & Mostovski, 2000[8]
- †Oppenheimiella Meunier, 1893[9]
- †Oppenheimiella baltica Meunier, 1893[9]
- †Pseudopetia Zhang, 1987[3]
- †Pseudopetia exilis Zhang, 1987[3]
- †Pseudopetia grandis Zhang, 1987[3]
- Puyehuemyia Amorim et al, 2018[2]
- Puyehuemyia chandleri Amorim et al, 2018 [2]
References
- ^ Chandler, P.J. (2001). Flat-Footed Flies: (Diptera Opetiidae and Platypezidae) of Europe (Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica 36 ed.). Brill Academic Pub. pp. 1–278. ISBN 978-9004120235.
- ^ a b c 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.
- ^ 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.
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