Species Ogcodes dispar

Classification · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range · Life Cycle · Remarks · Print References · Works Cited

small-headed fly - Ogcodes dispar - male - female

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Small Headed Fly - Ogcodes dispar - male

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Diptera (Flies)

No Taxon (Orthorrhapha)

Family Acroceridae (Small-headed Flies)

Genus Ogcodes

Species dispar (Ogcodes dispar)

Explanation of Names

Ogcodes dispar (Macquart 1855)

Identification

Widely distributed in eastern North America, though uncommonly encountered. Males are typically bright yellow-orange all over, the female is darker (especially the abdomen). In O. rufoabdominalis both sexes should have a black thorax making them obviously bicolored (but the reverse of this one)--Dennis Haines, 6.xii.2007

Range

QC-MN to Costa Rica(1)

Life Cycle

Pupa:

Remarks

For those wishing to search for and rear larvae of Ogcodes, a detailed study of the host-parasite relationship for this species can be found in Lamore (1960). (A. S. 7/24/14)

Print References

Lamore D.H. (1960) Cases of parasitism of the Bsailica Spider, Allepeira lemniscata (Walckenaer), by the dipteran endoparasite, Ogcodes dispar (Macquart). Proc. Entomo. Soc. Wash. 62: 65-85. (Full text)

Works Cited

1.	Thompson F.C., Pape T., Evenhuis N.L. (2013) Systema Dipterorum, Version 1.5

Contributed by john and jane balaban on 6 December, 2007 - 6:00pm
Additional contributions by Aaron Schusteff, v belov, Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 3 October, 2018 - 11:44pm

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