Diopsoidea

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Antliophora
Ordo: Diptera
Subordo: Brachycera
Infraordo: Muscomorpha
Sectio: Schizophora
Subsectio: Acalyptrata
Superfamilia: Diopsoidea
Familiae (7): Diopsidae - Gobryidae - Megamerinidae - Nothybidae - Psilidae - Somatiidae - Strongylophthalmyiidae - Syringogastridae - Tanypezidae
Name

Diopsoidea Billberg, 1820 (NOTE: Has nomenclatural priority over both Nothyboidea and Tanypezoidea)
Synonyms

Nothyboidea Frey, 1927
Tanypezoidea Rondani, 1856

References

McAlpine, D.K. 1997: Gobryidae, a new family of acalyptrate flies (Diptera: Diopsoidea), and a discussion of relationships of the diopsoid families. Records of the Australian Museum, 49: 167–194. [1]

Vernacular names
中文: 马来蝇总科

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 (e.g., the Megamerinidae are sometimes placed here, but may also be placed in the Nerioidea),[1] and the final classification is likely to require the use of molecular systematics.
References

http://www.tolweb.org/Megamerinidae/10602 Tree of Life Web: Megamerinidae