Opetiidae

Opetiidae
Opetia nigra Meigen, 1830
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Clade:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Diptera
Section:Aschiza
Superfamily:Platypezoidea
Family:Opetiidae
Chandler 1981[1]

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

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. 1 2 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 9004120238.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Zhang, J.-F. (1987). "Four new genera of Platypezidae". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 26: 595–603.
  3. 1 2 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. 1 2 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. 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.
  8. 1 2 Meunier, F. (1893). "Note sur les Platypezidae de l'ambre tertiaire". Bull. Soc. Zool. France. 18: 230–234.
  9. 1 2 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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