Opetiidae
| Opetiidae | |
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| Opetia nigra Meigen, 1830 | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Suborder: | Brachycera |
| Section: | Aschiza |
| Superfamily: | Platypezoidea |
| Family: | Opetiidae Chandler 1981[1] |
The Opetiidae or flat-footed flies are members of a family of flies of the Order Diptera.[1] The family contains only four extant species in one genus, Opetia, and the remaining taxa are known only from fossils.
Family description
wing venation
Classification
Opetiidae was formerly in Platypezidae.
- †Lithopetia Zhang, 1987[2]
- †Lithopetia hirsuta Zhang, 1987[2]
- †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]
References
- 1 2 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 9004120238.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Zhang, J.-F. (1987). "Four new genera of Platypezidae". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 26: 595–603.
- 1 2 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.
- 1 2 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.
- 1 2 Coram, R.; Jarzembowski, E. A.; Mostovski, M. B. (2000). "Two rare eremoneuran flies (Diptera: Empididae and Opetiidae) from the Purbeck Limestone group". Paleontol. J. (suppl.) 34: 370–373.
- 1 2 Meunier, F. (1893). "Note sur les Platypezidae de l'ambre tertiaire". Bull. Soc. Zool. France 18: 230–234.
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