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Welcome to Infraorder Orthorrhapha!

Orthorrhapha - Liber Deserti

Your current chain: State of matter Life > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Hexapoda > Class Insecta > Subclass Pterygota > Order Diptera > Suborder Brachycera > Infraorder Orthorrhapha

(From Wikipedia) Orthorrhapha is a circumscriptional name which historically was used in entomology for an infraorder of Brachycera, one of the two suborders into which the order Diptera, the flies, are divided.

FACT: Despite its relative obsolescence, this grouping is still used due to the current confusion amongst more recent grouping!

Currently discovered: 1/4 Parvorders, 2/3 Superfamilies

Parvorder

  1. Tabanomorpha - Snipe Flies and Allies

Superfamily

  1. Asiloidea
  2. Empidoidea - Dance Flies, Long-Legged Flies and Allies