Orthorrhapha is a
circumscriptional name which historically was used for an
infraorder of
Brachycera, one of the two
suborders into which the
order Diptera, the flies, are divided. As the group was
paraphyletic, it has not been used in classifications in the last decade, and is effectively obsolete. However, many catalogs, checklists, and older works still contain the name. The taxa that used to be in the Orthorrhapha now comprise all of the infraorders in Brachycera excluding the
Muscomorpha (= "Cyclorrhapha").