''Opetiops'' is a genus of timber flies (family

Pantophthalmidae Pantophthalmidae (sometimes spelled as Panthophthalmidae) is a small family of very large, robust flies, sometimes referred to as timber flies. There are 21 known species in two genera in the family, all of Neotropical distribution. Superficially ...

) containing a single described species, ''Opetiops alienus'', occurring in

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, and

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/ref> It is the only member of the family Pantophthalmidae that is not in the genus ''

Pantophthalmus ''Pantophthalmus'' is a genus of large, robust flies whose larvae feed on living and dead trees, and contains all but one of the species in the family Pantophthalmidae. Species *'' Pantophthalmus argyropastus'' Bigot Discrimination is the ...

''.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q14698284 Monotypic Brachycera genera Stratiomyoidea Insects described in 1916 Taxa named by Günther Enderlein Diptera of South America