Opetiid Flat Footed Flies

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 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 Lebanese amber and Electrosania from the Late Cretaceous New Jersey amber seem likely to be closely related to modern opetiids.^[2]

Family description

wing venation

See [1]

Classification

Opetiidae was formerly in Platypezidae.

• †Lithopetia Zhang, 1987^[3]
  • †Lithopetia hirsuta Zhang, 1987^[3]
• Opetia Meigen, 1830^[4] Palearctic, Oligocene-Recent
  • Opetia aberrans Shatalkin, 1985^[5]
  • Opetia alticola Saigusa, 1963^[6]
  • Opetia anomalipennis Saigusa, 1963^[6]
  • †Opetia atra Statz, 1940^[7] Rott Formation, Germany, Oligocene
  • Opetia nigra Meigen, 1830^[4]
• †Opetiala Coram, Jarzembowski & Mostovski, 2000^[8]

• †Opetiala shatalkini Coram, Jarzembowski & Mostovski, 2000^[8]

• †Oppenheimiella Meunier, 1893^[9]

• †Oppenheimiella baltica Meunier, 1893^[9]

• †Pseudopetia Zhang, 1987^[3]

• †Pseudopetia exilis Zhang, 1987^[3]
• †Pseudopetia grandis Zhang, 1987^[3]

• Puyehuemyia Amorim et al, 2018^[2] Chile, Recent

• Puyehuemyia chandleri Amorim et al, 2018 ^[2]

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