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Ogcodinae is a subfamily of the
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 proboscis for accessing nectar. They are rare and not widely known. The most frequen ...
(small-headed flies). Their larvae are
endoparasite Parasitism is a close relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or inside another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life. The entomologist E. O. Wilson has ...
s of araneomorph spiders in the subgroup
Entelegynae The Entelegynae or entelegynes are a subgroup of araneomorph spiders, the largest of the two main groups into which the araneomorphs were traditionally divided. Females have a genital plate ( epigynum) and a "flow through" fertilization system; m ...
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Genera

The subfamily includes one extant genus and one extinct: * †'' Glaesoncodes'' Hennig, 1968 * '' Ogcodes'' Latreille, 1796


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Acroceridae Brachycera subfamilies Endoparasites {{Nemestrinoidea-stub