PLATYPEZIDAE
(flat-footed flies)

PLATYPEZIDAE (flat-footed flies) may be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

PLATYPEZIDAE (flat-footed flies) may be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Subtaxon Rank Featured
subtaxa		 No of
interactions		 No of
references
Agathomyia
a genus of big-footed flies
Genus 1 subtaxa 1 trophisms 1 references
Seri obscuripennis
a big-footed fly
Species 1 trophisms 1 references
Taxonomic hierarchy:
FamilyPLATYPEZIDAE (flat-footed flies)
SuperfamilyPLATYPEZOIDEA (scuttle flies, flat-footed flies & big-footed flies)
Series Aschiza (hover, drone, big-headed, scuttle, flat-footed, big-footed & pointed-wing flies)
InfraorderMuscomorpha (hover, scuttle, acalypterate, dung, house & parasitoid flies, blue/green bottles)
SuborderBRACHYCERA (short-horned 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)
NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for PLATYPEZIDAE (flat-footed flies)

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 No 10

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

General Literature

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may also be relevant to PLATYPEZIDAE (flat-footed flies):

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