Opetiidae

Barahona-Segovia, Rodrigo M., Madriz, Isaí, González, Christian R. & Amorim, Dalton De Souza, 2024, An update on the knowledge and general understanding of the Chilean Diptera diversity, Zootaxa 5518 (1), pp. 1-87 : 27

Opetiidae ( Fig. 63 )

The Opetiidae comprises five species grouped in only two genera, Opetia Meigen and Puyehuemyia Amorim & Silva. Opetia is restricted to four species, one in Europe, two in Japan and one in Russia (Martin Ebejer pers. com.). The family was unknown outside the Palearctic Region and was not treated in the CDASUS. The first record of opetiids from the Southern Hemisphere was recently made by Amorim et al. (2018), who described Puyehuemyia chandleri Amorim & Silva based on a single female collected from the Puyehue National Park in Chile. This female has a sclerotized, elongated terminalia, as also occurs in female Opetia , and is similar to those seen in the parasitoid groups.

Figures

FIGURES 62–67. Platypezoidea of Chile: (62) Lonchoptera bifurcata (Fallen) (Lonchopteridae, photo by Claudio Maureira); (63) Puyehuemyia chandleri Amorim, Silva & Brown (Opetiidae, photo by Dalton de Souza Amorim); (64) Archiphora cf. patagonica (Schmitz) (Phoridae, photo by Dalton de Souza Amorim); (65) Phorid fly species feed on juices (Phoridae, photo by Claudio Maureira); (66) phorid fly attacking to Camponotus ant. The yellow arrows identify the flies (Phoridae, photo by Patrich Cerpa), and (67) Platypezidae (photo by Matías Gargiulo).