Diopsoidea

Diopsoidea
	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; Gobryidae; Megamerinidae; Nothybidae; Psilidae - rust flies; Somatiidae; Syringogastridae;

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.

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