British Insects: the Families of Diptera
British Insects: the Families of Diptera |
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Formerly Platypezidae.
Adult insects. Antennae 2–6 segmented; ‘modified’. Ptilinal suture absent or weakly defined. The maxillary palps 1 segmented; porrect. Wings without a discal cell; with a closed anal cell.
Larvae and pupae. Larvae acephalic. Pupa enclosed within a puparium.
Comments. Wings without marked thickening of the costal vein.
Classification. Suborder Brachycera; Division Muscomorpha Aschiza; Superfamily Platypezoidea.
British representation: Genera 1; 1 species.
Illustrations: • Opetia nigra (Lonchoptera-like Opetia: B. Ent. 489). • Opetia nigra (from Walker).
To view the illustrations with detailed captions, go to the interactive key. This also offers full and partial descriptions, diagnostic descriptions, differences and similarities between taxa, lists of taxa exhibiting or lacking specified attributes, and distributions of character states within any set of taxa.
Cite this publication as: ‘Watson, L., and Dallwitz, M.J. 2003 onwards. British insects: the families of Diptera. Version: 9th June 2008. http://delta-intkey.com’.
