Poole, Karen E.
Diopsis
Sign in to saveDiopsis is the type genus of stalk-eyed flies: placed in the subfamily Diopsinae and first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1775. Species are recorded from Africa and south-east Asia.
Species
KINGDOM
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumPlatyhelminthes
- OrderRhabdocoela
- FamilyPromesostomidae
Habitatmarine, brackish
Observations57
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Diopsis is the type genus of stalk-eyed flies: placed in the subfamily Diopsinae and first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1775. Species are recorded from Africa and south-east Asia.
Species such as Diopsis macrophthalma (synonym D. thoracica) and D. apicalis cause significant rice damage by boring into stems: especially in Africa.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Diopsis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.