The oriental eye fly, Siphunculina funicola ( de Meijere) is a small, dark-colored dipteran (1.5-1.6 mm) in the family Chloropidae. This eye fly species is commonly attracted to humans and animals, feeding on lachrymal and other secretions of body as well as moist surfaces of its hosts (Ayyar, 1917; Syddiq, 1938; Hamilton, 1939). The flies are extremely annoying to human and domestic animal hosts and may serve as potential vectors of various bacterial pathogens to vertebrate hosts