Ocnaea

Ocnaea is a genus of small-headed flies (insects in the family Acroceridae). There are at least 20 described species in Ocnaea.[4][5][6][7]

Ocnaea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Acroceridae
Subfamily:	Panopinae
Genus:	Ocnaea Erichson, 1840
Synonyms[1][2]
Eriosoma Macquart, 1838 (nec Leach, 1818) Pialeoidea Westwood, 1876[3] ?Arrhynchus Philippi, 1871

Species

These 25 species belong to the genus Ocnaea:

• Ocnaea auripilosa Johnson, 1923 ^{i c g b}
• Ocnaea boharti Schlinger, 1983 ^{i c g b}
• Ocnaea cisnerosi James, 1950 ^{c g}
• Ocnaea coerulea Cole, 1919 ^{i c g}[8]
• Ocnaea falcifer Aldrich, 1928 ^{c g}
• Ocnaea flavipes Aldrich, 1926 ^{c g}
• Ocnaea gigas Aldrich, 1928 ^{c g}
• Ocnaea gloriosa (Sabrosky, 1943) ^{i c g}[9]
• Ocnaea helluo Osten Sacken, 1877 ^{i c g}[10]
• Ocnaea loewi Cole, 1919 ^{i c g}[8]
• Ocnaea lugubris Gerstaecker, 1856 ^{c g}
• Ocnaea magna (Walker, 1849) ^{i c g}
• Ocnaea metallica (Osten Sacken, 1887) ^{c g}
• Ocnaea micans Erichson, 1840 ^{c g}
• Ocnaea schwarzi Cole, 1919 ^{c g}[8]
• Ocnaea sequoia Sabrosky, 1948 ^{i c g b}[11]
• Ocnaea smithi Sabrosky, 1948 ^{i c g}
• Ocnaea trichocera Osten Sacken, 1887 ^{c g}
• Ocnaea trivittata Aldrich, 1932 ^{c g}[12]
• Ocnaea xuthogaster Schlinger, 1961 ^{i c g}[2]

The following five species are sometimes placed in Arrhynchus:

• Ocnaea maculatus (Schlinger, 1968) ^{c g}[13]
• Ocnaea meridionalis Sabrosky, 1946 ^{c g}[14]
• Ocnaea penai (Schlinger, 1968) ^c[13]
• Ocnaea stuardoi Sabrosky, 1946 ^{c g}[14]
• Ocnaea vittata (Philippi, 1871) ^{c g}

Data sources: i = ITIS,[4] c = Catalogue of Life,[5] g = GBIF,[6] b = Bugguide.net[7]

References

1. Evenhuis, Neal L.; Pape, Thomas; Pont, Adrian C. (2016). "Nomenclatural Studies Toward a World List of Diptera Genus-Group Names. Part V: Pierre-Justin-Marie Macquart" (PDF). Zootaxa. 4172 (1): 1–211. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4172.1.1. PMID 27701208.
2. Schlinger, E.I. (1961). "New Species of Acrocera from Arizona and Ocnaea from California, with Synonymical Notes on the Genus Ocnaea (Diptera: Acroceridae)". Entomological News. 72: 7–12.
3. Westwood, J. O. (1876). "Notae Dipterologicae. No. 3.— Descriptions of new genera and species of the family Acroceridae". Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 1876: 507–518.
4. "Ocnaea Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-04-26.
5. "Browse Ocnaea". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-26.
6. "Ocnaea". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-26.
7. "Ocnaea Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-26.
8. Cole, F. R. (1919). "The Dipterous Family Cyrtidae in North America". Transactions of the American Entomological Society. 45 (1): 1–79. JSTOR 25077002.
9. Sabrosky, C.W. (1943). "A new species and notes on Acroceridae (Diptera)". Entomological News. 55: 176–182.
10. Osten Sacken, C.R. (1877). "Western Diptera: Descriptions of new genera and species of Diptera from the region west of the Mississippi and especially from California". Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories. 3 (189–354). doi:10.5962/bhl.title.57939.
11. Sabrosky, C.W. (1948). "A Further Contribution to the Classification of the North American Spider Parasites of the Family Acroceratidae (Diptera)". The American Midland Naturalist. 39 (2): 382–430. doi:10.2307/2421592. JSTOR 2421592.
12. Aldrich, J. M. (1932). "New Diptera, or two-winged flies, from America, Asia, and Java, with additional notes". Proceedings of the United States National Museum. The United States National Museum. 81 (9): 1–28. doi:10.5479/si.00963801.81-2932.1. Retrieved 31 August 2016.
13. Schlinger, E.I. (1968). "Studies in Neotropical Acroceridae, Part I. A revision of Arrhynchus Philippi and a key to the genera of the Ocnaea Branch of the Panopinae (Diptera)". Revista Chilena de Entomología. 6: 47–54.
14. Sabrosky, C.W. (1946). "Two new species of Ocnaea from Chile.". In Stuardo Ortiz, C. (ed.). Catálogo de los Dípteros de Chile. Santiago: Ministerio de Agricultura, Impresiones Universitaria. pp. 190–195. OCLC 29151155.

Further reading

• McAlpine, J. F.; Petersen, B. V.; Shewell, G. E.; Teskey, H. J.; Vockeroth, J. R.; Wood, D. M., eds. (1981). Manual of Nearctic Diptera, Volume I. Agriculture Canada, Research Branch. ISBN 978-0-660-10731-8.