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.
Nematocera Infraorder Deuterophlebiomorpha Deuterophlebiidae Edwards, 1922 Infraorder Nymphomyiomorpha Nymphomyiidae Tokunaga, 1932 Infraorder Tipulomorpha Tipulidae Latreille, 1802 Cylindrotomidae Schiner, 1863 Trichoceridae Rondani, 1841 Synonym: Petauristidae. Pediciidae Osten-Sacken, 1859 Limoniidae Rondani, 1856 Infraorder Ptychopteromorpha Ptychopteridae Osten-Sacken, 1862 Synonyms: Liriopeidae, Liriopidae. Infraorder Psychodomorpha Blephariceridae Loew, 1861 Synonym: Blepharoceridae. Psychodidae Newman, 1834 Synonyms: Nemopalpidae, Phlebotomidae, Trichomyiidae. Tanyderidae Osten-Sacken, 1880 Synonym: Macrochilidae.
Infraorder Culicomorpha Dixidae Schiner, 1868 Corethrellidae Edwards, 1932 Chaoboridae Newman, 1834 Synonyms: Corethridae, Chironomapteridae, Mesotendipedidae, Dixamimidae, Rhaetomyiidae. Culicidae Meigen, 1818 Thaumaleidae Bezzi, 1913 Synonym: Orphnephilidae. Simuliidae Newman, 1834 Synonyms: Melusinidae. Ceratopogonidae Newman, 1834 Synonyms: Leptoconopidae, Helidae, Heleidae. Chironomidae Newman, 1834 Synonym: Tendipedidae Infraorder Perissommatomorpha Perissommatidae Colless, 1962 Infraorder Bibionomorpha Anisopodidae Knab, 1912 Synonyms: Phryneidae, Rhyphidae, Sylvicolidae, Mycetobiidae, Protolbiogastridae. Canthyloscelididae Enderlein, 1912 Synonyms: Hyperoscelididae, Synneuridae. Scatopsidae Newman, 1834 Axymyiidae Shannon, 1921 Hesperinidae Schiner, 1864 Bibionidae Fleming, 1821 Synonyms: Penthetriidae, Pleciidae. Pachyneuridae Schiner, 1864 Synonym: Cramptonomyiidae. Ditomyiidae Kylin, 1919 Diadocidiidae Winnertz, 1863 Mycetophilidae Newman, 1834 Synonyms: Fungivoridae, Allactoneuridae, Manotidae Bolitophilidae Winnertz, 1863 Synonym: Bolitophilinae. Keroplatidae Rondani, 1856 Synonyms: Ceroplatidae, Zelmiridae, Platyuridae, Zelmicidae, Macroceratidae, Macroceridae, Necromyzidae Lygistorrhinidae Edwards, 1925 Rangomaramidae Jaschhof & Didham, 2002 Sciaridae Billberg, 1820 Synonym: Lycoriidae. Cecidomyiidae Newman, 1835 Synonyms: Porricondylidae, Itonididae, Heteropezidae, Lestremiidae, Campylomyzidae.
Nematocera families known only as fossils Ansorgiidae Krzemiński & Lukashevich, 1993. Antefungivoridae Rohdendorf, 1938. Synonyms: Antiquamediidae, Pleciomimidae, Sinemediidae. Architendipedidae Archizelmiridae Rohdendorf, 1962. Asiochaoboridae Hong & Wang, 1990. Boholdoyidae Kovalev, 1985. Cascopleciidae Crosaphididae Kovalev, 1983. Elliidae Krzemińska, Blagoderov & Krezmiński, 1993. Eoditomyiidae Ansorge, 1996. Eopleciidae. Eopolyneuridae Rohdendorf, 1962. Eoptychopteridae. Gracilitipulidae. Grauvogeliidae Krzemiński, 1999. Hennigmatidae Shcherbakov, 1995. Heterorhyphidae Ansorge & Krzemiński, 1995. Hyperpolyneuridae. Rohdendorf, 1962 Limnorhyphidae. Luanpingitidae Zhang, 1986. Mesophantasmatidae. Mesosciophilidae Rohdendorf, 1946. Musidoromimidae. Nadipteridae Lukashevich, 1995. Oligophrynidae. Oreodomyiidae. Palaeophoridae Rohdendorf, 1951. Synonym: Sciadoceridae Parapleciidae. Paraxymyiidae Rohdendorf, 1946. Pleciodictyidae. Pleciofungivoridae Rohdendorf, 1946. Synonym: Fungivoritinae Procramptonomyiidae Kovalev, 1983. Protendipedidae Rohdendorf, 1951. Synonym: Prototendipedidae. Protobibionidae F. M. Carpenter 1992. Protopleciidae Rohdendorf, 1946. Synonyms: Dyspolyneuridae, Protoligoneuridae. Palaeoplecidae Protorhyphidae Handlirsch, 1906. Protoscatopsidae Rohdendorf, 1946. Serendipidae Evenhuis, 1994. Synonym: Paratendipedidae. Siberhyphidae Kovalev, 1985. Sinotendipedidae. Strashilidae. Synonym: Vosilidae. Tanyderophrynidae Rohdendorf, 1962. Synonym: Tanyderophryneidae. Tethepomyiidae Grimaldi & Arillo, 2009 Tillyardipteridae Lukashevich & Shcherbakov, 1999. Tipulodictyidae Rohdendorf, 1962. Tipulopleciidae Rohdendorf, 1962. Valeseguyidae Amorim & Grimaldi, 2006. Vladipteridae Shcherbakov, 1995. Zhangobiidae. Synonyms: Palaeolimnobiidae.
Brachycera Orthorrhapha Nemestrinidae Griffith & Pidgeon, 1832 Acroceridae Leach, 1815 Synonyms: Cyrtidae, Oncodidae, Ogcodidae. Hilarimorphidae Williston, 1896 Vermileonidae Williston, 1886 Synonyms: Protobrachyceridae, Protobrachycerontidae. Superfamily Asiloidea Latreille, 1802 Bombyliidae Latreille, 1802 Synonyms: Phthiriidae, Systropodidae, Usiidae. Asilidae Latreille, 1802 Synonym: Leptogastridae. Mydidae Latreille, 1809 Synonyms: Mydaidae, Mydasidae Apioceridae Bigot, 1857 Evocoidae Yeates, Irwin & Wiegmann 2006 Apsilocephalidae Nagatomi, Saigusa, Nagatomi & Lyneborg, 1991 Scenopinidae Burmeister, 1835 Synonym: Omphralidae. Therevidae Newman, 1834 Mythicomyiidae Synonyms: Cyrtosiidae, Mythicomyiinae. Superfamily Rhagionoidea Latreille, 1802 Austroleptidae Nagatomi, 1982 Bolbomyiidae Stuckenberg, 2001 Rhagionidae Latreille, 1802 Synonyms: Leptidae, Erinnidae (sensu Evenhuis), Paleostratiomyiidae? Superfamily Stratiomyoidea Latreille, 1802 Pantophthalmidae Bigot, 1886 Synonym: Acanthomeridae. Stratiomyidae Latreille, 1804 Xylomyidae Verrall, 1901 Synonyms: Xylomyiidae, Solvidae.
Superfamily Tabanoidea Latreille, 1802 Athericidae Nowicki, 1873 Oreoleptidae Zloty, Sinclair & Pritchard, 2005 Pelecorhynchidae Enderlein, 1922 Tabanidae Latreille, 1802 Superfamily Xylophagoidea Fallén, 1810 Xylophagidae Fallén, 1810 Synonyms: Heterostomidae, Exeretonevridae, Exerotonevridae, Erinniidae ?(sensu Schumann), Rachiceridae, Coenomyidae, Coenomyiidae. Superfamily Empidoidea Latreille, 1804 Atelestidae Hennig, 1970 Dolichopodidae Latreille, 1809 Synonym: Microphoridae Empididae Latreille, 1804 Synonym: Empidae. Homalocnemiidae Collin, 1928 Hybotidae Macquart, 1823 Oreogetonidae Chvála, 1976 Ragadidae Sinclair, 2016 Superfamily Apystomyioidea Nagatomi & Liu, 1994 Apystomyiidae Nagatomi & Liu, 1994
Aschiza Superfamily Phoroidea Curtis, 1833 Ironomyiidae McAlpine & Martin, 1966 Lonchopteridae Macquart, 1823 Synonym: Musidoridae. Opetiidae Rondani, 1856 Phoridae Curtis, 1833 Synonyms: Sciadoceridae, Termitoxeniidae. Platypezidae Latreille, 1829 Synonym: Clythiidae. Superfamily Syrphoidea Latreille, 1802 Pipunculidae Walker, 1834 Synonyms: Dorylaidae, Dorilaidae. Syrphidae Latreille, 1802
Schizophora Conopidae Latreille, 1802 Synonym: Stylogastridae. Acalyptratae Superfamily Carnoidea Newman, 1834 Australimyzidae Griffiths, 1972 Braulidae Egger, 1853 Canacidae Jones, 1906 Synonyms: Canaceidae, Tethinidae. Carnidae Newman, 1834 Chloropidae Rondani, 1856 Synonyms: Siphonellopsidae, Oscinidae. Inbiomyiidae Buck, 2006 Milichiidae Schiner, 1862 Synonym: Phyllomyzidae. Superfamily Ephydroidea Zetterstedt, 1837 Camillidae Frey, 1921 Curtonotidae Enderlein, 1914 Synonym: Cyrtonotidae Diastatidae Hendel, 1917 (including Campichoetidae) Drosophilidae Rondani, 1856 Ephydridae Zetterstedt, 1837 Synonyms: Risidae, Risiidae. Mormotomyiidae Austen, 1936 Superfamily Lauxanioidea Macquart, 1835 Celyphidae Bigot, 1852 Chamaemyiidae Hendel, 1910 Synonyms: Ochthiphilidae, Ochthiphilidae. Cremifaniidae McAlpine, 1963 Lauxaniidae Macquart, 1835 Synonym: Sapromyzidae. Superfamily Lonchaeoidea Cryptochetidae Brues & Melander, 1932 Lonchaeidae Rondani, 1856 Superfamily Nerioidea Westwood, 1840 Cypselosomatidae Hendel, 1931 Synonyms: Pseudopomyzidae Frey, 1941 Micropezidae Blanchard, 1840 Synonyms: Calobatidae, Taeniapteridae, Tylidae, Trepidariidae. Neriidae Westwood, 1840 Superfamily Opomyzoidea Fallén, 1820 Acartophthalmidae Czerny, 1928 Agromyzidae Fallén, 1823 Synonym: Phytomyzidae Anthomyzidae Czerny, 1903 Asteiidae Rondani, 1856 Synonym: Astiidae. Aulacigastridae Duda, 1924 Synonyms: Aulacigastreridae. Clusiidae Handlirsch, 1884 Synonyms: Clusiodidae, Heteroneuridae. Fergusoninidae Tonnoir, 1937 Marginidae McAlpine, 1991 Megamerinidae Hendel, 1913 Synonym: Megameridae. Neminidae McAlpine, 1983 Neurochaetidae McAlpine, 1978 Odiniidae Hendel, 1920 Opomyzidae Fallén, 1820 Synonym: Geomyzidae (sensu Evenhuis, 1994) Periscelididae Oldenberg, 1914 Synonyms: Periscelidae, Stenomicridae. Teratomyzidae Hennig, 1969 Xenasteiidae Hardy, 1980 Superfamily Sciomyzoidea Fallén, 1820 Coelopidae Hendel, 1910 Synonyms: Phycodromiidae, Pycodromidae. Dryomyzidae Schiner, 1862 Helcomyzidae Hendel, 1924 Huttoninidae Steyskal, 1965 Helosciomyzidae Steyskal, 1965 Heterocheilidae McAlpine, 1991 Natalimyzidae Barraclough & McAlpine, 2006 Phaeomyiidae Verbeke, 1950 Ropalomeridae Schiner, 1868 Sciomyzidae Fallén, 1820 Synonyms: Tetanoceridae. Sepsidae Walker, 1833 Synonym: Sepsididae. Superfamily Sphaeroceroidea Macquart, 1835 Chyromyidae Schiner, 1863 Synonyms: Chiromyiidae, Geomyzidae (part. sensu Schumann, 1965) Heleomyzidae Westwood, 1840 Synonyms: Helomyzidae, Trixoscelididae, Trichoscelidae, Rhinotoridae, Chiropteraomyzidae. Heteromyzidae Fallén, 1820 Nannodastiidae Papp, 1980 Sphaeroceridae Macquart, 1835 Synonyms: Borboridae, Cypselidae. Superfamily Tanypezoidea Rondani, 1856 (7 families) Diopsidae Billberg, 1820 Synonyms: Centrioncidae. Gobryidae McAlpine, 1997 Nothybidae Frey, 1927 Psilidae Macquart, 1835 Somatiidae Hendel, 1935 Strongylophthalmyiidae Hendel, 1917 Syringogastridae Prado, 1969 Tanypezidae Rondani, 1856 Superfamily Tephritoidea Newman, 1834 Ctenostylidae Bigot, 1882 Pallopteridae Loew, 1862 Synonym: Eurygnathomyiidae. Piophilidae Macquart, 1835 Synonyms: Neottiophilidae, Thyreophoridae Platystomatidae Schiner, 1862 Synonym: Platystomidae. Pyrgotidae Loew, 1868 Richardiidae Loew, 1868 Tephritidae Newman, 1834 Synonyms: Trypetidae, Trupaneidae, Trypaneidae, Tachiniscidae. Ulidiidae Macquart, 1835 Synonyms: Otitidae, Ortalidae, Pterocallidae.
Calyptratae Superfamily Hippoboscoidea Samouelle, 1819 Glossinidae Theobald, 1903 Hippoboscidae Samouelle, 1819 Nycteribiidae Samouelle (ex Leach), 1819 Streblidae Kolenati, 1863 Superfamily Muscoidea Latreille, 1802 Anthomyiidae Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 Fanniidae Schnabl & Dziedzicki, 1911 Muscidae Latreille, 1802 Synonyms: Eginiidae Scathophagidae Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 Synonyms: Cordyluridae, Scatomyzidae, Scopeumatidae, Cordiluridae. Superfamily Oestroidea Leach, 1815 Calliphoridae Brauer & Bergenstamm, 1889 Synonyms: Mesembrinellidae, Bengaliidae. Mystacinobiidae Holloway, 1976 Oestridae Leach, 1815 Synonyms: Cuterebridae, Gasterophilidae, Gastrophilidae, Hypodermatidae. Rhiniidae Brauer & Bergenstamm, 1889 Rhinophoridae Robineau-Desvoidy, 1863 Synonym: Melanophoridae. Sarcophagidae Macquart, 1834 Tachinidae Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 Synonyms: Larvaevoridae, Stackelbergomyiidae. Ulurumyiidae Michelsen & Pape, 2017
Brachycera families known only as fossils Alinkidae Krzemiński, 1992 Archisargidae Rohdendorf, 1951 Chimeromyiidae Grimaldi, Cumming & Arillo, 2009 Cratomyiidae Mazzarolo & Amorim, 2000 Eomyiidae Rohdendorf, 1962 Eostratiomyiidae Rohdendorf, 1951 Eophlebomyiidae Cockerell, 1925 Eremochaetidae Ussatchov, 1968 Galliidae Lukashevich & Mostovski, 2023 Hoffeinsmyiidae Michelsen, 2009 Kovalevisargidae Mostovski, 1997 Orientisargidae Zhang 2012 Palaeostratiomyiidae Rohdendorf, 1938 Proneottiphilidae Hennig, 1969 Prosechamyiidae Blagoderov & Grimaldi, 2007 Protapioceridae Ren, 1998 Protobrachyceridae Rohdendorf, 1964 Protempididae Ussatchov, 1968. Protomphralidae Rohdendorf, 1957 Rhagionemestriidae Ussatchov, 1968 Rhagionempididae Rohdendorf, 1951 Uranorhagionidae Zhang, Yang & Ren, 2010 Zhangsolvidae Nagatomi & Yang, 1998
See also List of obsolete names in Diptera References
External links Sabrosky's Family Group Names in Diptera Palaeobiology database Diptera families of British Columbia Sources Barraclough, D. A. & McAlpine, D. K. 2006. Natalimyzidae, a new African family of acalyptrate flies (Diptera: Schizophora: Sciomyzoidea). African Invertebrates 47: 117-134.