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Genus Stylogaster

Thick-headed Fly - Stylogaster neglecta - female tiny long-legged fly - Stylogaster biannulata - female Stylogaster biannulata? - Stylogaster biannulata - female Fly - Stylogaster Wasp like-flies or Fly-like wasps - Mating - Stylogaster - male - female Stylogaster neglecta female - Stylogaster neglecta - female Long-bellied, long-legged fly on Milkweed - Stylogaster biannulata fly – Stylogaster neglecta? - Stylogaster neglecta
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon ("Acalyptratae")
Superfamily Sciomyzoidea
Family Conopidae (Thick-headed Flies)
Subfamily Stylogastrinae
Genus Stylogaster
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Revised in(1)
Explanation of Names
Stylogaster Macquart 1835
Numbers
3 spp. in our area, many in the tropics (mostly Neotropical/Afrotropical)(1)
Identification
Key to spp. in(1)

Eastern species can be differentiated by the structure of their antennae: S. neglecta, left, and S. biannulata, right:

Life Cycle
Internal parasites of Orthoptera and Blattaria. In the tropics, members of this genus follow army ants and oviposit on roaches and/or grasshoppers flushed by the ants. Members of this genus also occur in temperate North America (where army ants are absent), where they are believed to parasitize crickets
Print References
Aldrich, John M. (1930). American two-winged flies of the genus Stylogaster Macquart. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 78(2852):1–27. (Full Text)
Woodley, Norm E. & Judd, D. D. (1998). Notes on the host, egg and puparium of Stylogaster biannulata (Say). Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 100(4): 658-664. (Full Text)
Works Cited
1.Revision of Nearctic Stylogaster (Diptera: Conopidae)
Burt, T.O., J.H. Skevington, and L. Rocha. 2015. Canadian Entomologist 147: 125-147.