Oplodontha

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title: "Oplodontha" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["stratiomyidae", "brachycera-genera", "taxa-named-by-camillo-rondani", "diptera-of-africa", "diptera-of-asia", "diptera-of-europe"] description: "Genus of flies" topic_path: "general/stratiomyidae" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oplodontha" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Genus of flies ::

| image = Oplodontha viridula.jpg | image_caption = Oplodontha viridula | display_parents = 2 | taxon = Oplodontha | authority = Rondani, 1863 | type_species = | type_species_authority = | synonyms = *Haplodonta Frey, 1934

• Hoplodonta James, 1940
• Hoplodonta Scudder, 1882
• Oplodonta Brauer, 1882

Oplodontha is a genus of flies in the family Stratiomyidae.

Species

• Oplodontha africana (Enderlein, 1917)
• Oplodontha albipennis (Macquart, 1838)
• Oplodontha anodonta (Macquart, 1846)
• Oplodontha circumscripta Bezzi, 1908
• Oplodontha decellei Lindner, 1965
• Oplodontha dispar (Macquart, 1838)
• Oplodontha elongata Zhang, Li & Yang, 2009
• Oplodontha facinigra Zhang, Li & Yang, 2009
• Oplodontha guerinii (Macquart, 1838)
• Oplodontha lindneri James, 1980
• Oplodontha luzonensis James, 1947
• Oplodontha minuta (Fabricius, 1794)
• Oplodontha pulchriceps (Loew, 1858)
• Oplodontha punctifacies (Brunetti, 1923)
• Oplodontha rubrithorax (Macquart, 1838)
• Oplodontha sinensis Zhang, Li & Yang, 2009
• Oplodontha viridula (Fabricius, 1775)

References

References

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11. (1965). "Stratiomyiiden von der Elfenbeinkuste (Diptera Stratiomyiidae)". Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines.
12. (2009). "Three new species of Oplodontha from China (Diptera, Stratiomyidae)". Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica.
13. (1980). "20. Stratiomyidae. Pp. 253-274, in Crosskey, R. W. (ed.). Catalogue of the Diptera of the Afrotropical Region". British Museum (Natural History).
14. (1947). "The Oriental species of ''Oplodontha'' (Diptera: Stratiomyidae)". The Pan Pacific Entomologist.
15. (1794). "Entomologia systematica emendata et aucta. Vol. 4". C. G. Proft.
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