Ortalis is an historic genus of Ulidiid or picture-winged flies, first described by Fallén in 1810.

[1] It served as the type genus for the family Ulidiidae, which was called Ortalidae at the time.

[2][1] The name of the fly family was therefore revised, with some authors calling it Otitidae until Ulidiidae was settled on as standard.

The genus itself was found to be paraphyletic, and all of its species have been reassigned to other genera, some in the Ulidiidae, and some in other Tephritoid families.

Ceroxys Chaetopsis Eumecosomyia Euxesta Herina Hypochra Idana Melieria Otites Pseudotephritis Pterotaenia Seioptera Atopognathus Cleitamia Engistoneura Euxestomoea Neoardelio Poecilotraphera Pseudepicausta Rhytidortalis Rivellia Traphera Zygaenula Automola Pseudoedaspis