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Ocellipsis

Ocellipsis is a genus of flies belonging to the family Sphaeroceridae.

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Ocellipsis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Sphaeroceridae
Subfamily: Limosininae
Genus: Ocellipsis
Richards, 19381
Type species
Ocellipsis cyclogaster
Richards, 19381

Ocellipsis is a genus of flies belonging to the family Sphaeroceridae.2

Species

  • O. alutacea Richards, 19381
  • O. brunneicauda Richards, 19653
  • O. cyclogaster Richards, 19381
  • O. elgonensis Richards, 19574
  • O. humeralis Richards, 19653
  • O. jeanneli Richards, 19381
  • O. leleupi Richards, 19574
  • O. lonchomma Richards, 19381
  • O. melanocephala Richards, 19381
  • O. selaginella Richards, 19653
  • O. spinata Richards, 19574
  • O. verruciger Richards, 19381
References

References

  1. Richards, O. W. (1938a). "Diptera Sphaeroceridae (Borboridae, Cypselidae). Mission scientifique de l'Omo". Mémoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle. 4 (40). Paris: 381–405.
  2. Rohček, Jindřich; Marshall, Stephen A.; Norrbom, Allen L.; Buck, Matthias; Quiros, Dora Isabel; Smith, Ian (2001). Rohček, Jindřich (ed.). World Catalog of Sphaeroceridae (Diptera). Opava: Slezské Zemské Muzeum. pp. 1–414. ISBN 978-8086224213. Retrieved 3 September 2017.
  3. Richards, O. W. (1965). "Diptera, Flightless Sphaeroceridae and Chloropidae. Mission zoologique de l'I.R.S.A.C. en Afrique orientale. (P. Basilewsky et N. Leleup, 1957)". Annales du Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, Série in 8 o, Sciences Zoologiques. 138: 415–464.
  4. Richards, O. W. (1957). "On apterous and brachypterous Sphaeroceridae from Mt. Elgon in the collection of the Musée royal du Congo belge, Tervuren (Diptera)". Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines. 55: 374–382.