''Ogcodes zonatus'' is a species of insect in the family Acroceridae, the small-headed flies.

Distribution

This species is present in

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Description

''Ogcodes zonatus'' can reach a body length of approximately . These flies are characterized by a globular body, very small and dark heads and by translucent wings. The contiguous eyes occupy in both sexes the entire head. A long ventral proboscis is present only in the feeding imagos. The domed thorax is black, with partly brown hairs, where as the abdomen has black and white transversal bands. The rear pair of legs is curved, thickened at the end, with a brown colour.Przemysław Trojan: Klucze do oznaczania owadów Polski cz. XXVIII Muchówki – Diptera, zeszyt 23 – Cyrtidae. Warszawa: PWN, Polski Związek Entomologiczny, 1956 This species is very similar to '' Ogcodes pallipes'', that has monocolor femurs, and to ''

Ogcodes gibbosus ''Ogcodes gibbosus '' is a Palearctic species of fly in the family Acroceridae The Acroceridae are a small family (biology), family of odd-looking flies. They have a hump-backed appearance with a strikingly small head, generally with a long pr ...

'', that shows different shapes of the bands on tergites, yellowish halteres knob and transparent margin of the

calypter A calypter is either of two posterior lobes of the posterior margin of the forewing of flies between the extreme posterior wing base and the alula, which covers the halteres. The lower calypter is the proximal calypter (synonyms: squama (of som ...

Biology

Adults are active from June to August. This species is a parasitoid of Salticidae spiders (''

Heliophanus ''Heliophanus'' is a genus of the spider family Salticidae (jumping spiders). Most of the almost 170 described species occur in Africa, with many others found in the Palearctic region from Europe to Japan. Species , the World Spider Catal ...

'' species).Jessica Gillung, Chris Borkent - Death comes on two wings: A review of dipteran natural enemies of arachnids - Article in Journal of Arachnology - April 2017 DOI: 10.1636/JoA-S-16-085.1

References

External links

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Les insectes
Acroceridae Insects described in 1840 Diptera of Europe Diptera of Asia Taxa named by Wilhelm Ferdinand Erichson {{Nemestrinoidea-stub