Opomyzoidea

The Opomyzoidea are a superfamily of flies.

Leaf-miner flies, etc.
Opomyza florum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Subsection:	Acalyptratae
Superfamily:	Opomyzoidea
Families
Agromyzidae -leaf miner flies Anthomyzidae Asteiidae Aulacigastridae - sap flies Clusiidae - lekking flies Fergusoninidae Marginidae Neminidae Neurochaetidae- upside-down flies Odiniidae Opomyzidae Periscelididae Teratomyzidae Xenasteiidae

Biology

Opomyzoids show a range of lifestyles including mining plant leaves (many Agromyzidae), feeding in grass stems (Anthomyzidae and Opomyzidae), forming plant galls (Fergusonina), feeding on fungi (some Anthomyzidae and Asteiidae), feeding on sap flows of trees (some Aulacigastridae, Odiniidae and Periscelididae), living in galleries of wood-boring insects (Odiniidae) or in water-filled cavities of plants (phytotelmata; Aulacigastridae, Neurochaetidae and Periscelididae). However, the biology of most opomyzoid families is poorly known.^[1]

Phylogeny

The phylogeny of Opomyzoidea is controversial, with different authors assigning different families and different relationships among families. One study using molecular analysis concluded that the superfamily is not monophyletic.^[1]