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Opetiidae

Opetiidae
Opeteia.jpg
Opetia nigra Meigen, 1830
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Section: Aschiza
Superfamily: Platypezoidea
Family: Opetiidae
Chandler 1981

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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Opetiidae was formerly in Platypezidae.

Diptera.info


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