Species Ogcodes dispar

Classification · Identification

small-headed fly - Ogcodes dispar - male - female

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Diptera (Flies)

No Taxon ("Orthorrhapha" (Brachycera excluding Aschiza and Schizophora))

Superfamily Nemestrinoidea

Family Acroceridae (Small-headed Flies)

Genus Ogcodes

Species dispar (Ogcodes dispar)

Identification

This is Ogcodes dispar, the males are typically bright yellow-orange. The thorax should be dark for O. rufoabdominalis. The species is widely distributed in eastern North America, though uncommonly encountered. Both sexes of rufoabdominalis should have a black thorax making them obviously bicolored (but the reverse of this one). Males of O. dispar are typically yellow-orange all over, while the female is darker (especially the abdomen). … Dennis Haines, 6 December, 2007

Contributed by john and jane balaban on 6 December, 2007 - 6:00pm

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