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Orthorrhapha

Orthorrhapha
Scientific classification
Kingdom : Animalia
Phylum : Arthropoda
Class : Insecta
Order : Diptera
Suborder : Brachycera
Infraorder: Orthorrhapha
Superfamilies

  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)

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

Rhagio scolopacea (a snipe-fly) family Rhagionidae







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