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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/> The family contains only five extant species in two genera, ''[[Opetia]]'', and ''[[Puyehuemyia]]''. the remaining taxa are known only from fossils.
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|format=Print}}</ref> The family contains only five extant species in two genera, ''[[Opetia]]'', and ''[[Puyehuemyia]]''. the remaining taxa are known only from fossils.


==Family description==
==Family description==

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Opetiidae
Opetia nigra Meigen, 1830
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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. the remaining taxa are known only from fossils.

Family description

wing venation

See [1]

Classification

Opetiidae was formerly in Platypezidae.

References

  1. ^ 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. {{cite book}}: |format= requires |url= (help)
  2. ^ a b c d e Zhang, J.-F. (1987). "Four new genera of Platypezidae". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 26: 595–603.
  3. ^ a b 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. ^ a b 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. ^ 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.
  8. ^ a b Meunier, F. (1893). "Note sur les Platypezidae de l'ambre tertiaire". Bull. Soc. Zool. France. 18: 230–234.
  9. ^ 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). hdl:2246/6845.

Images

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