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Diopsis Macrophthalma
''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. Species The Global Biodiversity Information Facility lists:Global Biodiversity Information Facility: ''Diopsis'' Linnaeus, 1775 (retrieved 19 March 2024) # '''' # '' |
Diopsinae
Stalk-eyed flies are insects of the fly family Diopsidae. The family is distinguished from most other flies by most members of the family possessing "eyestalks": projections from the sides of the head with the eyes at the end. Some fly species from other families such as Drosophilidae, Platystomatidae, Richardiidae, and Tephritidae have similar heads, but the unique character of the Diopsidae is that their antennae are located on the stalk, rather than in the middle of the head as in all other flies. Stalked eyes are present in all members of the subfamily Diopsinae, but are absent in the Centrioncinae, which retain unstalked eyes similar to those of other flies. The stalked eyes are usually sexually dimorphic, with eyestalks present but shorter in females. The stalk-eyed flies are up to a centimeter long, and they feed on both decaying plants and animals. Their unique morphology has inspired research into how the attribute may have arisen through forces of sexual selection and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,#Blunt, Blunt (2004), p. 171. was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the "father of modern Taxonomy (biology), taxonomy". Many of his writings were in Latin; his name is rendered in Latin as and, after his 1761 ennoblement, as . Linnaeus was the son of a curate and was born in Råshult, in the countryside of Småland, southern Sweden. He received most of his higher education at Uppsala University and began giving lectures in botany there in 1730. He lived abroad between 1735 and 1738, where he studied and also published the first edition of his ' in the Netherlands. He then returned to Sweden where he became professor of medicine and botany at Uppsala. In the 1740s, he was sent on several journeys through Sweden to find and classify plants and animals. In the 1750s and 1760s, he co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diopsis Chinica
''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. Species The Global Biodiversity Information Facility lists:Global Biodiversity Information Facility: ''Diopsis'' Linnaeus, 1775 (retrieved 19 March 2024) # '''' # '' |
Diopsis Fumipennis
''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. Species The Global Biodiversity Information Facility lists:Global Biodiversity Information Facility: ''Diopsis'' Linnaeus, 1775 (retrieved 19 March 2024) # '' Diopsis abdominalis'' # '''' # '' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
