Diopsidae

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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Baker RH, Wilkinson GS, DeSalle R (2001) Phylogenetic utility of different types of molecular data used to infer evolutionary relationships among stalk-eyed flies Diopsidae.
Phenetic Relationship Study of Gold Ring Cowry, Cypraea Annulus (Gastropods: Cypraeidae) in Mollucas Islands Based on Shell Morphological
Within Diptera, stalked-eyes are present in eight families: Diopsidae, Drosophilidae, Micropezidae, Periscelidadae, Platystomatidae, Richardiidae, Ulidiidae and Tephritidae (Wilkinson and Dodson 1997).
Descripcion de la hembra de la enigmatica Batrachophthalmum quimbaya (Diptera: Richardiidae)
In continental Africa, the stalk-eyed Diopsidae are represented by the genera Diopsina Curran, 1928, Diopsis Linnaeus, 1775, Sphyracephala Say, 1828 and by the Diasemopsis genus-group (Feijen 1989).
Etymology: This striking species is named after Brian Roy Stuckenberg, who supported the writers' Diopsidae research in its early stages and who accompanied the second author while she collected most of the type series in 1980.
with apical wing spots and in some other Diopsidae genera.
Stuckenberg facilitated collecting of Diopsidae in South Africa.
New Stratiomyidae and Diopsidae from the Belgian Congo (Diptera).
Described a new recorded family Diopsidae of (Order Diptera) with its species Diopsis apicalis in Egypt.
Diopsidae (Diptera: Acalyptratae) from Togo and Zaire.
A new species of Diopsis L. (Diptera: Diopsidae) from South Africa and Swaziland, and brief review of African species with a large apical wing spot
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.
Female flies pick mates with sexy eyes
These are reported from the dipterous families Celyphidae, Curtonotidae (as Drosophilidae), Chloropidae, Diopsidae, Lauxaniidae, Psilidae, Richardiidae, Tephritidae and various unidentified flies (Balazuc 1980; Lee & Majewski 1986; Rossi & Kotrba 2004; Rossi & Ponziani 2008; Rossi 1986, 1987; Thaxter 1901, 1902, 1917, 1918).
Diopsidae Diopsis longicornis Macquart gratiellae W.
A new species of Laboulbenia (Ascomycota) parasitic on an African fly (Diptera: Curtonotidae), with a brief review of Diptera-associated species of the genus
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