Genus Stylogaster

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Life Cycle · Print References · Works Cited

Stylogaster - Stylogaster neglecta - female

Wasp like-flies or Fly-like wasps - Mating - Stylogaster - male - female

fly with robust ovipositor? - Stylogaster neglecta - female

fly extra long abdominal end - Stylogaster neglecta

Stylogaster sp. - Stylogaster biannulata

Tiny pollinator - Stylogaster neglecta - female

Tiny pollinator - Stylogaster neglecta - male

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.

Contributed by Beatriz Moisset on 12 May, 2005 - 3:16pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Bbarnd, Aaron Schusteff, v belov, KenW
Last updated 12 December, 2018 - 9:45pm

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