Opetiidae

Opetiidae

Opetiidae

Family of flies

The Opetiidae is a family of true flies of the superfamily Platypezoidea, one of two families commonly called flat-footed flies.[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]

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Family description

wing venation

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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]

References

  1. [1]
    Chandler, P.J. (2001). Flat-Footed Flies: (Diptera Opetiidae and Platypezidae) of Europe (Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica 36 ed.). Brill Academic Pub. pp. 1–278. ISBN 978-9004120235.
  2. [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): 1–27. doi:10.1206/3892.1. hdl:2246/6845. S2CID 90294385.
  3. [3]
    Zhang, J.-F. (1987). "Four new genera of Platypezidae". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 26: 595–603.
  4. [4]
    Meigen, J. W. (1830). "Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europaischen zweiflugeligen Insekten". Sechster Theil. Schulz, Hamm.: xi + 401 +[3].
  5. [5]
    Shatalkin, A. I. (1985). "A survey of Platypezidae (Diptera) of the USSR fauna". Sbornik Trud. Zool. Muz. MGU. 23: 69–136.
  6. [6]
    Saigusa, T. (1963). "Systematic studies of Japanese Platypezidae. I. Genus Opetia Meigen". Sieboldia. 3: 105–108.
  7. [7]
    Statz, G. (1940). "Neue Dipteren (Brachycera et Cyclorrhapha) aus dem Oberoligozan von Rott". Palaeontographica A. 91: 120–174, pl. 19–27.
  8. [8]
    Coram, R.; Jarzembowski, E. A.; Mostovski, M. B. (2000). "Two rare eremoneuran flies (Diptera: Empididae and Opetiidae) from the Purbeck Limestone group". Paleontol. J. 34 (Suppl. 3): 370–373.
  9. [9]
    Meunier, F. (1893). "Note sur les Platypezidae de l'ambre tertiaire". Bull. Soc. Zool. France. 18: 230–234.

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