Proceedings of 

 the United States 

 National Museum 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION • WASHINGTON, D.C. 



Volume 111 1960 Number 3429 



A REVISION OF THE GENUS OGCODES LATREILLE 



WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO 



SPECIES OF THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE 



By Evert I. Schlinger^ 



Introduction 



The cosmopolitan Ogcodes is the largest genus of the acrocerid or 

 spider-parasite family. As the most highly evolved member of the 

 subfamily Acrocerinae, I place it in the same general line of develop- 

 ment as Holops Philippi, Villalus Cole, Thersitomyia Hunter, and a 

 new South African genus.^ Ogcodes is most closely associated with the 

 latter two genera . The Ogcodes species have never been treated from 

 a world point of view, and this probably accounts for the considerable 

 confusion that exists in the literature. However, several large 

 regional works have been published that were found useful: Cole (1919, 

 Nearctic), Brunetti (192G, miscellaneous species of the world, mostly 

 from Africa and Australia), Pleske (1930, Palaearctic), Sack (1936. 

 Palaearctic), and Sabrosky (1944, 1948, Nearctic). Up to this time 97 

 specific names have been applied to species and subspecies of this 

 genus. Of these, 19 were considered synonyms, hence 78 species 

 were assumed valid. With the description of 14 new species and the 

 addition of one new name while finding onl}^ five new synonyms, 



1 Department of Biological Control, University of California, Riverside, Calif. 



• This new genus, along with other new species and genera, is being described in forthcoming papers by 

 the author. 



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