DIOPSINAE, Billberg, 1820

Perkovsky, E. E., Mostovski, M. B. & Henderickx, H., 2015, New Records Of The Dipteran Genera Triphleba (Phoridae) And Prosphyracephala (Diopsidae) In Rovno And Baltic Ambers, Vestnik Zoologii 49 (3), pp. 245-250 : 246

Subfamily DIOPSINAE

The Diopsidae , or stalk-eyed flies, is a comparatively small acalyptrate family of nearly

200–300 species in 11 to 14 genera ( Feijen, 1989). The family is remarkable for having most species with hypercephalic features and exhibits the greatest diversity in the Old World, particularly in the tropical and subtropical parts of Africa followed by Southeast Asia, with few species in the Palaearctic Region ( Papp et al., 1997; Hauser et al., 2011). Two species are known in the temperate eastern North America, with one of them being recorded as far west as Wyoming ( Stoaks, Shaw, 2011).