Ocellipsis

{{short description|Genus of flies}}

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| regnum = Animalia

| phylum = Arthropoda

| classis = Insecta

| ordo = Diptera

| familia = Sphaeroceridae

| subfamilia = Limosininae

| genus = Ocellipsis

| genus_authority = Richards, 1938{{cite journal|last1=Richards|first1=O. W.|title=Diptera Sphaeroceridae (Borboridae, Cypselidae). Mission scientifique de l'Omo.|journal=Mémoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle|date=1938a|volume=4|issue=40|pages=381–405|location=Paris}}

| synonyms =

| type_species = Ocellipsis cyclogaster

| type_species_authority = Richards, 1938

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Ocellipsis is a genus of flies belonging to the family Lesser Dung flies.{{cite book|last1=Rohček|first1=Jindřich|last2=Marshall|first2=Stephen A.|last3=Norrbom|first3=Allen L.|last4=Buck|first4=Matthias|last5=Quiros|first5=Dora Isabel|last6=Smith|first6=Ian|editor1-last=Rohček|editor1-first=Jindřich|title=World Catalog of Sphaeroceridae (Diptera)|date=2001|publisher=Slezské Zemské Muzeum|location=Opava|isbn=978-8086224213|pages=1–414|url=http://www.uoguelph.ca/debu/catalog.htm|accessdate=3 September 2017}}

Species

  • O. alutacea Richards, 1938
  • O. brunneicauda Richards, 1965{{cite journal|last1=Richards|first1=O. W.|title=Diptera, Flightless Sphaeroceridae and Chloropidae. Mission zoologique de l'I.R.S.A.C. en Afrique orientale. (P. Basilewsky et N. Leleup, 1957)|journal=Annales du Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, Série in 8 o, Sciences Zoologiques|date=1965|volume=138|pages=415–464}}
  • O. cyclogaster Richards, 1938
  • O. elgonensis Richards, 1957{{cite journal|last1=Richards|first1=O. W.|title=On apterous and brachypterous Sphaeroceridae from Mt. Elgon in the collection of the Musée royal du Congo belge, Tervuren (Diptera)|journal=Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines|date=1957|volume=55|pages=374–382}}
  • O. humeralis Richards, 1965
  • O. jeanneli Richards, 1938
  • O. leleupi Richards, 1957
  • O. lonchomma Richards, 1938
  • O. melanocephala Richards, 1938
  • O. selaginella Richards, 1965
  • O. spinata Richards, 1957
  • O. verruciger Richards, 1938

References