List of Diptera families

This is a list of the families of the order Diptera (true flies). The classification is based largely on Pape et al. (2011). Many of the fossil species are of uncertain placement and are retained in separate lists broadly under Nematocera and Brachycera.[1]

Graphical overview
Diptera
Nematocera

Deuterophlebiomorpha

Nymphomyiomorpha

Tipulomorpha

Ptychopteromorpha

Psychodomorpha

Culicomorpha

Neodiptera

Perissommatomorpha

Bibionomorpha

Brachycera

Orthorrhapha

Eremoneura
Cyclorrhapha

Aschiza

Schizophora

Acalyptratae

Calyptratae

  1. ^ Pape, Thomas; Blagoderov, Vladimir; Mostovski, Michail B. (2011). "Order Diptera Linnaeus, 1758". In Zhang, Z. Q. (ed.). Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness (PDF). Magnolia Press. pp. 222–229.