Orthorrhaphan Flies
Orthorrhapha
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. As the group was paraphyletic, it has not been used in classifications in the last decade, and is effectively obsolete. However, many catalogs, checklists, and older works still contain the name. The taxa that used to be in the Orthorrhapha now comprise all of the infraorders in Brachycera excluding the Muscomorpha (= "Cyclorrhapha").
The recent revision of the taxonomy of the order Diptera by Pape et al. revived the name Orthorrhapha.
7 branches of this group, most-observed first
Asiloidea
superfamilyAsiloidea
Dance Flies, Long-legged Flies, and Allies
superfamilyEmpidoidea
Snipe Flies and Allies
parvorderTabanomorpha
Soldier Flies and Allies
parvorderStratiomyomorpha
Tangleveined and Small-headed Flies
superfamilyNemestrinoidea
Xylophagomorpha
parvorderXylophagomorpha
Vermileonomorpha
parvorderVermileonomorpha
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Orthorrhapha in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 372865.