Ozirhincus

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

Ozirhincus
Ovipositing female of Ozirhincus longicollis
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. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3141.1.1.
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, Bibcode:2015PLoSO..1030981D, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0130981, ISSN 1932-6203, PMC 4489628, PMID 26134526, S2CID 17568238
• Erwin Lindner (1966). Die Fliegen der Paläarktischen Region. E. Schweizerbart.