Ozirhincus

Ozirhincus is a Palearctic genus of gall midges, whose larval stages feed predominantly on the seeds of Asteraceae.[2]

Ozirhincus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Diptera
Family:
Cecidomyiidae
Genus:
Ozirhincus

Rondani, 1840
Type species
Ozirhincus longicollis
Rondani, 1840
Synonyms[1]
  • Acorhynchus Rondani, 1861
  • Clinorhyncha Loew, 1850
  • Oxyrhyncus Rondani, 1856
  • Ozyrhinchus Rondani, 1861


(and many spelling variations)

References
  1. O’HARA, JAMES E.; CERRETTI, PIERFILIPPO; PAPE, THOMAS; EVENHUIS, NEAL L. (2011). "Nomenclatural Studies Toward a World List of Diptera Genus-Group Names. Part II: Camillo Rondani" (PDF). Zootaxa. 3141: 1–268.
  2. Dorchin et al. (2015), Linder(1966)

Bibliography
  • Dorchin, Netta; Astrin, Jonas J.; Bodner, Levona; Harris, Keith M. (2015), "Morphological and Molecular Revision of the Genus Ozirhincus (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae)—Long-Snouted Seed-Feeding Gall Midges on Asteraceae", PLOS ONE, 10 (7): e0130981, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0130981, ISSN 1932-6203
  • Erwin Lindner (1966). Die Fliegen der palaearktischen Region. E. Schweizerbart.
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