Ogcodes gibbosus
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| Ogcodes gibbosus in British Entomology | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Acroceridae |
| Genus: | Ogcodes |
| Species: | O. gibbosus |
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| Ogcodes gibbosus | |
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Ogcodes gibbosus is a Palearctic species of fly in the family Acroceridae.
A fly with a body length of 3 to 7 mm. Its shiny black body is covered with grayish-yellow hair. The entire surface of the thoracic scales is white. The wings are transparent, and the halteres have yellow heads.Squamae with pale border. The legs have dark brown femora with yellow tips. Males have yellow abdominal tergites with black bands widened in the middle on the front edges or with extensive bone-yellow patches, forming a distinctive pattern. The female's abdomen is black with narrow yellow bands on the rear edges of the tergites.[1] [2][3]
References
- ↑ Oldroyd, H., 1969 Diptera Brachycera: Tabanoidea and Asiloidea (Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects 9/4) Royal Entomological Society, London.
- ↑ Verrall, G. H., 1909 Stratiomyidae and succeeding families of the Diptera Brachycera of Great Britain British flies Volume 5 London : Gurney and Jackson, 1909.BHL Full text with illustrations
- ↑ Stubbs, Alan E.; Drake, Martin (2001). British Soldierflies and their allies: A Field Guide to the Larger British Brachycera (Print). London: British Entomological and Natural History Society. pp. 528 pages. ISBN 1-899935-04-5.