page_title: Platypezidae
hierarchical_section_title: Platypezidae
caption_attribution_description: Ganoderma applanatum - Ganodermataceae - Polyporales Black objects are larval galls of Agathomyia wankowiczii (Platypezidae)
context_page_description: Platypezidae is a family of true flies of the superfamily Platypezoidea. The more than 250 species are found worldwide primarily in woodland habitats. A common name is flat-footed flies, but this is also used for the closely related Opetiidae which were included in the Platypezidae in former times.
  Some other genera formerly included here have been recognized as quite more distant and are nowadays placed in the asilomorph family Atelestidae.
context_section_description: Platypezidae is a family of true flies of the superfamily Platypezoidea. The more than 250 species are  found worldwide primarily in woodland habitats. A common name is flat-footed flies, but this is also used for the closely related Opetiidae which were included in the Platypezidae in former times.
  Some other genera formerly included here have been recognized as quite more distant and are nowadays placed in the asilomorph family Atelestidae.
caption: Larval galls (black objects) of Agathomyia wankowiczii on an Artist's Bracket fungus (Ganoderma applanatum)[1]
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