This is Diopsis stuckenbergi, stalk eye insect resting on a leaf.

This interesting being is a Stalk-eyed fly and are part of the fly family Diopsidae.
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Overhead view of a thin-bodied fly resting on a leaf spotted with light and dark patches of green growth. The fly is positioned diagonally with the head in the lower right portion of the image. The body is brown with four dark spines arising from the thorax, with thin amber-colored legs and brown translucent wings with several groupings of 2-3 white spots. The dark red eyes and small antennae of the fly are at the ends of long dark eye stalks that are each not quite as long as the length of the thorax to the wing tips.

The eyes have it! #FlyDay. Both the males & females of #StalkEyed #Flies, Fam. #Diopsidae, have their eyes (& antennae – a character absent in other families) located at the ends of eye stalks. Male’s eyes are more widely spaced; likely a sexually-selected trait. Mt. #Kinabalu #Sabah #Malaysia

Dorsal view of two stalk-eyed fly specimens, family Diopsidae, arranged face to face against a white background. The fly on the left is facing right. It's eyes are fairly close together (for a stalk-eyed fly, anyway), the distance between the eyes isn't much greater than the width of the abdomen. The fly on the right is facing left; it's eyes are very wide apart, the distance between them is roughly equal to the length of the entire body. The fly on the left is dark overall; the one on the right has dark eyes, head, and thorax, the legs and eye stalks are yellowish and the abdomen is reddish orange.

The fly on the left is one of two species of stalk-eyed flies in North America.

They do not see eye to eye with their more recognizable relatives from around the world.

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