African Arthropods/Acalyptrate flies

The acalyptrate fly clade includes the following superfamilies and families:

  • 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)