List of stalk-eyed flies

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Stalk-eyed flies (family Diopsidae) comprises around 150 species. [1]

Species list

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<i>Teleopsis dalmanni</i> Species of fly

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References

  1. "Catalogue of Life".
  2. Curran, Charles Howard (1928). ". New Stratiomyidae and Diopsidae from the Belgian Congo (Diptera)" (PDF). American Museum Novitates (324): 1–5. Retrieved 29 May 2017.