Richard-bohart
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Ocnaea boharti
Ocnaea boharti is a species of small-headed fly in the family Acroceridae, described by Schlinger in 1983. The species epithet honors Richard M. Bohart (1913–2007), a prominent UC Davis entomologist who researched Strepsiptera and for whom the Bohart Museum of Entomology is named. Members of the genus Ocnaea are known as endoparasitoids of spiders, with larvae entering host bodies and consuming them from within. This species belongs to the subfamily Panopinae, one of several lineages within this morphologically unusual family of Diptera.