Diopsis

Diopsis
Diopsis stuckenbergi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Diopsidae
Subfamily: Diopsinae
Genus: Diopsis
Linnaeus, 1775

Diopsis is the type genus of stalk-eyed flies: placed in the subfamily Diopsinae and first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1775.[1] Species are recorded from Africa and south-east Asia.[2]

Species such as Diopsis macrophthalma (synonym D. thoracica) and D. apicalis cause significant rice damage by boring into stems: especially in Africa.[citation needed]

  1. ^ Linnaeus C (1775) Dissertatio entomologica, bigas insectorum sistens. Edmann, Upsaliæ. 1-7.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference GBIF was invoked but never defined (see the help page).