Megalabops

Megalabops
Megalabops quadriguttata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Diopsidae
Subfamily: Diopsinae
Genus: Megalabops
Frey, 1928
Type species
Megalabops quadriguttata

Megalabops is a genus of stalk-eyed flies.

Description

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.

Taxonomy

Megalabops contains the following species:

References

  1. 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.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Genus Megalabops". iNaturalist. Retrieved 3 October 2026.