OPETIIDAE
(big-footed flies)

Taxonomic hierarchy:
FamilyOPETIIDAE (big-footed flies)
SuperfamilyPLATYPEZOIDEA (scuttle flies, flat-footed flies & big-footed flies)
InfraorderEremoneura - Cyclorrhapha (an infraorder of flies)
OrderDIPTERA (two-winged flies)
Division Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
InfraclassNeoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
SubclassPTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
ClassINSECTA (true insects)
SubphylumHEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)

Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Chandler, P.J. 2001 The Flat-footed Flies (Diptera: Opetiidae and Platypezidae) of Europe Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica, 36, 278pp, E. J. Brill / Scandinavian Science Press Ltd.
Reemer, M. & de Jong, H. 2016 De Nederlandse breedvoetvliegen en basterdbreedvoetvliegen (Platypezidae & Opetiidae) Entomologische tabellen Nederlandse Faunistische Medelingen No 10.

OPETIIDAE (big-footed flies) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for OPETIIDAE (big-footed flies)
BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 0 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for OPETIIDAE (big-footed flies)
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