Opetiidae

Opetiidae
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

See

Classification

Opetiidae was formerly in Platypezidae.

  • †Lithopetia hirsuta Zhang, 1987[2]
  • 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 shatalkini Coram, Jarzembowski & Mostovski, 2000[7]
  • †Oppenheimiella baltica Meunier, 1893[8]
  • †Pseudopetia exilis Zhang, 1987[2]
  • †Pseudopetia grandis Zhang, 1987[2]

References

  1. 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.
  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.

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