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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(19.) 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. Systematic Biology 50: 87-105.

Phenetic Relationship Study of Gold Ring Cowry, Cypraea Annulus (Gastropods: Cypraeidae) in Mollucas Islands Based on Shell Morphological

Crab spider Diopsidae Diptera Diasemopsis apifasciata Stalked eye fly Total 7 Jachie sacred grove Gryllidae Orthoptera Gryllus sp.

Conventional and Indigenous Biodiversity Conservation Approach: A Comparative Study of Jachie Sacred Grove and Nkrabea Forest Reserve

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).

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

Phylogenetic analysis of sexual dimorphism and eye-span allometry in stalk-eyed flies (Diopsidae).

Contrasting patterns of sexual size dimorphism in the grasshoppers Dichroplus vittatus and D. pratensis (Acrididae, Melanoplinae)

Phylogenetic analysis of sexual size dimorphism and eye-span allometry in stalk-eyed flies (Diopsidae).

Allometry of genitalia and fighting structures in Linyphia Triangularis (Araneae, Linyphiidae)

Studies of the stalk-eyed fly Cyrtodiopsis whitei (Diopsidae, Diptera).

One size fits all? Relationships between the size and degree of variation in genitalia and other body parts in twenty species of insects and spiders

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).

A new species of Laboulbenia (Ascomycota) parasitic on an African fly (Diptera: Curtonotidae), with a brief review of Diptera-associated species of the genus

(2003) reportan que no existe relacion fenotipica entre el tamano de los testiculos y la frecuencia de copula de los machos de Cyrtodiopsis dalmanni (Wiedemann, 1830) (Diptera: Diopsidae).

Frecuencia de copula de la polilla guatemalteca de la papa Tecia solanivora (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae)

Artificial sexual selection alters allometry in the stalk-eyed fly Cyrtodiopsis dalmanni (Diptera: Diopsidae).

Sexual size dimorphism as a correlated response to selection on body size: an empirical test of the quantitative genetic model

Artificial selection alters allometry in the stalk-eyed fly Cyrtodiopsis dalmanni (Diptera: Diopsidae).

Artificial selection on horn length-body size allometry in the horned beetle Onthopagus acuminatus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)

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