Megalabops
| Megalabops | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Megalabops quadriguttata | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Diopsidae |
| Subfamily: | Diopsinae |
| Genus: | Megalabops Frey, 1928[1] |
| Type species[2] | |
| Megalabops quadriguttata | |
Megalabops is a genus of stalk-eyed flies.[3]
Description
[edit]Flies of the genus Megalobops are distinguished by the inner orbital bristle in the middle of their eye-stalks being set upon a small tooth and their short supra-alar spines.[1]
Taxonomy
[edit]Megalabops contains the following species:
References
[edit]- 1 2 Shillito, J.F (1940). "Studies on Dipsidae (Diptera)". Novitates zoologicae : a journal of zoology in connection with the Tring Museum. 42: 149. Retrieved 4 October 2026.
- ↑ Steyskal, George C. (1972). "A Catalogue of Species and Key to the Genera of the Family Diopsidae (Diptera: Acalyptratae)". Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde. 234. Retrieved 4 October 2026.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Genus Megalabops". iNaturalist. Retrieved 3 October 2026.
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