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Diopsidae

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Diopsidae [dī′äp·sə‚dē]
(invertebrate zoology)
The stalk-eyed flies, a family of myodarian cyclorrhaphous dipteran insects in the subsection Acalypteratae.


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15 Nature, his team suggests that females of two tropical species in the Diopsidae family may not be so silly when they yield to the dazzle of stalks that can separate a male's eyes by up to one and a half times his body length.
 
 
 
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