Orthorrhapha

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? Orthorrhapha
Image:Bombyliid 7294.jpg Bombyliid fly on Bidens laevis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Diptera Suborder: Brachycera Infraorder: Orthorrhapta
Superfamilies
See text.

Orthorrhapha is an infraorder of Brachycera, one of the two or three suborders into which the order Diptera, the flies, are divided.

Classification

• Superfamily Tabanomorpha
  • Eostratiomyiidae
    extinct (Middle Jurassic)
  • Alinkidae extinct (Triassic)
  • Rhagionidae
  • Athericidae
  • Tabanidae
  • Pelecorhynchidae
  • Vermileonidae - worm lions
• Superfamily Nemestrinioidea
  • Acroceridae
  • Nemestrinidae
• Superfamily Xylophagomorpha
  • Pantophtalmidae
  • Xylophagidae
  • Eomyiidae extinct (Middle Jurassic)
• Superfamily Stratiomyomorpha
  • Archisargidae extinct (Middle Jurassic)
  • Stratiomyidae
  • Xylomyidae
• Superfamily Asiloidea
  • Protomphralidae extinct (Middle Jurassic)
  • Eremochaetidae extinct (Cretaceous, Jurassic)
  • Therevidae
  • Apioceridae
  • Asilidae
  • Mydidae
  • Scenopinidae
  • Bombyliidae
  • Apystomyiidae
  • Mythicomyiidae
  • Systropodidae
• Superfamily Empidoidea
  • Empididae
  • Dolichopodidae
  • Rhagionempididae extinct (Middle Jurassic)
  • Protempididae extinct (Upper Jurassic)