African Arthropods/Acalyptrate flies
Appearance
The acalyptrate fly clade includes the following superfamilies and families:
- Carnoidea
- Acartophthalmidae
- Australimyzidae
- Braulidae (bee lice) https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/56882-Braulidae
- Canacidae (beach flies) https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/203411-Canacidae
- Carnidae (bird flies)
- Chloropidae (frit flies) https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/127593-Chloropidae
- Cryptochetidae https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/311574-Cryptochetidae
- Inbiomyiidae
- Milichiidae (freeloader flies) https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/329891-Milichiidae
- Diopsoidea
- Diopsidae (stalk-eyed flies)
- Gobryidae
- Megamerinidae
- Nothybidae
- Psilidae (rust flies)
- Somatiidae
- Syringogastridae
- Ephydroidea
- Camillidae
- Campichoetidae
- Curtonotidae (quasimodo flies)
- Diastatidae
- Drosophilidae (vinegar and fruit flies)
- Ephydridae (shore flies)
- Lauxanioidea
- Celyphidae (beetle flies)
- Chamaemyiidae (aphid flies)
- Cremifaniidae
- Lauxaniidae (lauxaniid flies)
- Nerioidea
- Cypselosomatidae
- Fergusoninidae
- Micropezidae (stilt-legged flies)
- Neriidae
- Strongylophthalmyiidae
- Tanypezidae (stretched-foot flies)
- Opomyzoidea
- Agromyzidae (leaf-miner flies)
- Anthomyzidae
- Asteiidae
- Aulacigastridae
- Clusiidae (druid flies)
- Marginidae
- Neminidae
- Neurochaetidae
- Odiniidae
- Opomyzidae
- Periscelididae
- Teratomyzidae
- Xenasteiidae
- Sciomyzoidea
- Coelopidae (kelp flies)
- Conopidae (thick-headed flies)
- Dryomyzidae
- Helcomyzidae
- Helosciomyzidae
- Heterocheilidae
- Huttoninidae
- Natalimyzidae
- Phaeomyiidae
- Ropalomeridae
- Sciomyzidae (marsh flies)
- Sepsidae (black scavenger flies)
- Sphaeroceroidea
- Chyromyidae (golden flies)
- Heleomyzidae (heleomyzid flies)
- Nannodastiidae
- Sphaeroceridae (lesser dung flies)
- Tephritoidea
- Ctenostylidae
- Lonchaeidae (lance flies)
- Pallopteridae (flutter-wing flies)
- Piophilidae (cheese skipper flies)
- Platystomatidae (signal flies)
- Pyrgotidae (scarab-pursuing flies)
- Richardiidae
- Tachiniscidae
- Tephritidae (fruit flies)
- Ulidiidae (picture-winged flies)