Opetiops
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| Opetiops | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Pantophthalmidae |
| Genus: | Opetiops Enderlein, 1921[1] |
| Species: | O. alienus |
| Binomial name | |
| Opetiops alienus (Hermann, 1916)[2] | |
| Synonyms | |
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Opetiops is a genus of timber flies (family Pantophthalmidae) containing a single described species, Opetiops alienus, occurring in Colombia, Peru, Brazil, and Paraguay.[3][4] It is the only member of the family Pantophthalmidae that is not in the genus Pantophthalmus.[5]