The Opetiidae or flat-footed flies are members of a family of

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(insects of the Order Diptera). The family contains only five extant species in two genera, '' Opetia'' from the Palearctic region and '' Puyehuemyia'' from Chile in South America. Several fossil genera have been assigned to the family, but many of these are likely to belong elsewhere in the Platypezoidea. '' Lonchopterites'' from the Early Cretaceous

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and '' Electrosania'' from the Late Cretaceous

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seem likely to be closely related to modern opetiids.

Family description

Classification

Opetiidae was formerly in Platypezidae. *†'' Lithopetia'' Zhang, 1987 **†'' Lithopetia hirsuta'' Zhang, 1987 *'' Opetia'' Meigen, 1830 Palearctic, Oligocene-Recent **'' Opetia aberrans'' Shatalkin, 1985 **'' Opetia alticola'' Saigusa, 1963 **'' Opetia anomalipennis'' Saigusa, 1963 **†'' Opetia atra'' Statz, 1940

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, Germany, Oligocene **'' Opetia nigra'' Meigen, 1830 *†'' Opetiala'' Coram, Jarzembowski & Mostovski, 2000 :*†'' Opetiala shatalkini'' Coram, Jarzembowski & Mostovski, 2000 *†'' Oppenheimiella'' Meunier, 1893 :*†'' Oppenheimiella baltica'' Meunier, 1893 *†'' Pseudopetia'' Zhang, 1987 :*†'' Pseudopetia exilis'' Zhang, 1987 :*†'' Pseudopetia grandis'' Zhang, 1987 *'' Puyehuemyia'' Amorim et al, 2018 Chile, Recent :*'' Puyehuemyia chandleri'' Amorim et al, 2018

References

Images

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Brachycera families Platypezoidea Taxa named by Camillo Rondani {{Platypezoidea-stub