Diopsoidea | |
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A stalk-eyed fly from Cameroon | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Diptera |
(unranked): | Cyclorrhapha |
Section: | Schizophora |
Superfamily: | Diopsoidea |
Families | |
Diopsidae - stalk-eyed flies |
The Diopsoidea are a small but diverse cosmopolitan superfamily of acalyptrate muscoids, especially prevalent in the tropics. Some flux exists in the family constituency of this group, with the Strongylophthalmyiidae and Tanypezidae formerly being in this group but now in the Nerioidea.[1]