Orthorrhapha
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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
- Eostratiomyiidae
- Superfamily Nemestrinioidea
- 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)



