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Oatman, E.R. 1995. Lepidopteran complex on tomatoes. Pp. 190–192. In: Nechols, J.R., Andres, L.A., Beardsley, J.W., Goeden, R.D. and Jackson, C.G., eds., Biological control in the western United States. Accomplishments and benefits of regional research project W-84, 1964–1989. University of California, Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Publication 3361. 356 pp.

Oatman, E.R. 1995. Omnivorous looper and Amorbia cuneana Walsingham. Pp. 185–187. In: Nechols, J.R., Andres, L.A., Beardsley, J.W., Goeden, R.D. and Jackson, C.G., eds., Biological control in the western United States. Accomplishments and benefits of regional research project W-84, 1964–1989. University of California, Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Publication 3361. 356 pp.

Oatman, E.R., McMurtry, J.A., Waggonner, M., Platner, G.A. and Johnson, H.G. 1983. Parasitization of Amorbia cuneana (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) and Sabulodes aegrotata (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) on avocado in southern California. Journal of Economic Entomology 76: 52–53.

Oberhauser, K. 2012. Tachinid flies and monarch butterflies: citizen scientists document parasitism patterns over broad spatial and temporal scales. American Entomologist 58: 19–22.

Oberhauser, K., Gebhard, I., Cameron, C. and Oberhauser, S. 2007. Parasitism of monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) by Lespesia archippivora (Diptera: Tachinidae). American Midland Naturalist 157: 312–328.

Obrecht, E. 2014. Erstfunde von Trichopoda pennipes (Fabricius, 1781) (Diptera, Tachinidae) in der Schweiz, und eine Würdigung einer Amateurentomologin. Contributions to Natural History 25: 71–79.

Odak, S.C., Mishra, V.K., Nema, K.K. and Shrivastava, D.K. 1982. Preliminary studies on the ovipositional and developmental response of the exotic parasite, Eucelatoria sp. nr. armigera (Tachinidae. Diptera) on Heliothis armigera Hb. in laboratory. Legume Research 5: 31–34.

Odell, T.M. and Godwin, P.A. 1984. Host selection by Blepharipa pratensis (Meigen), a tachinid parasite of the gypsy moth, Lymantria dispar L. Journal of Chemical Ecology 10: 311–320.

O'Hara, J.E. 1983. Classification, phylogeny and zoogeography of the North American species of Siphona Meigen (Diptera: Tachinidae). Quaestiones Entomologicae 18 [1982]: 261–380.

O'Hara, J.E. 1983. A new species of Siphona (Diptera: Tachinidae) from Australia. International Journal of Entomology 25: 79–83.

O'Hara, J.E. 1983. Two bilateral gynandromorphs in the Calyptratae (Diptera): Hydrotaea meteorica (Linn.) (Muscidae) and Siphona hokkaidensis Mesnil (Tachinidae). Canadian Entomologist 115: 379–386.

O'Hara, J.E. 1984. Baeomyia n. g. (Diptera: Tachinidae): descriptions and notes about phylogenetic and zoogeographic relationships. Canadian Journal of Zoology 62: 1387–1396.

O'Hara, J.E. 1985. Actia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 (Insecta, Diptera): request for designation of type species. Z.N.(S.) 2491. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 42: 93–97.

O'Hara, J.E. 1985. Oviposition strategies in the Tachinidae, a family of beneficial parasitic flies. University of Alberta Agriculture and Forestry Bulletin 8 (2): 31–34.

O'Hara, J.E. 1988. Correlation between wing size and position of a hind crossvein in the Siphonini (Diptera: Tachinidae). Journal of Natural History 22: 1141–1146.

O'Hara, J.E. 1988. Description of the Diptera families collected at the Wagner and Bistcho peatlands. Provincial Museum of Alberta, Natural History Occassional Paper 10: 77–82.

O'Hara, J.E. 1988. Publications of Benno Herting. The Tachinid Times 1: 6–8.

O'Hara, J.E. 1988. Survey of first instars of the Siphonini (Diptera: Tachinidae). Entomologica Scandinavica 18: 367–382.

O'Hara, J.E. 1989. Publications of Raúl Cortés. The Tachinid Times 2: 5–7.

O'Hara, J.E. 1989. Systematics of the genus group taxa of the Siphonini (Diptera: Tachinidae). Quaestiones Entomologicae 25: 1–229.

O'Hara, J.E. 1990. Publications of L.P. Mesnil. The Tachinid Times 3: 10–13.

O'Hara, J.E. 1991. Revision of Nearctic species of Actia Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera: Tachinidae). Canadian Entomologist 123: 745–776.

O'Hara, J.E. 1991. Tachinid publications of C.W. Sabrosky. The Tachinid Times 4: 9–10.

O'Hara, J.E. 1993. Revision of the species of Frontiniella Townsend (Diptera: Tachinidae). Canadian Entomologist 125: 11–45.

O'Hara, J.E. 1994. Mounting tachinids from ethanol. The Tachinid Times 7: 3–4.

O'Hara, J.E. 1994. Release of Triarthria setipennis in Ottawa and notes about the New World distribution of the genus. The Tachinid Times 7: 1–2.

O'Hara, J.E. 1994. Revision of Nearctic species of Ceromya Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera: Tachinidae). Canadian Entomologist 126: 775–806.

O'Hara, J.E. 1994. Tachinid collecting in Arizona and New Mexico. The Tachinid Times 7: 4–6.

O'Hara, J.E. 1995. The American Southwest revisited. The Tachinid Times 8: 6–8.

O'Hara, J.E. 1995. Book review: Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera – Tachinidae, by Herting and Dely-Draskovits. The Tachinid Times 8: 3–4.

O'Hara, J.E. 1995. Jorgensen collection of Tachinidae donated to the CNC. The Tachinid Times 8: 5.

O'Hara, J.E. 1996. Book review: Handbook on British Tachinidae by R. Belshaw. The Tachinid Times 9: 2–3.

O'Hara, J.E. 1996. Earwig parasitoids of the genus Triarthria Stephens (Diptera: Tachinidae) in the New World. Canadian Entomologist 128: 15–26.

O'Hara, J.E. 1996. Hilltopping Tachinidae from the American Southwest. The Tachinid Times 9: 4–5.

O'Hara, J.E. 1996. The tachinid taxa of Louis P. Mesnil, with notes on nomenclature (Insecta: Diptera). Canadian Entomologist 128: 115–165.

O'Hara, J.E. 1996. Tachinid types in the Canadian National Collection. The Tachinid Times 9: 2.

O'Hara, J.E. 1998. Systematics and the World Wide Web: an information system on the Tachinidae for the 21st Century. Pp. 161–162. In: Ismay, J.W., ed., Abstracts Volume, Fourth International Congress of Dipterology, Oxford. 275 pp.

O'Hara, J.E. 1998. What's in a name? Ceranthia samarensis vs. Aphantorhaphopsis samarensis. The Tachinid Times 11: 2–4.

O'Hara, J.E. 1999. Tachinidae (Diptera) parasitoids of bertha armyworm (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). Canadian Entomologist 131: 11–28.

O'Hara, J.E. 2000. An account of a collecting trip to the mountains of southern Arizona and New Mexico, USA. The Tachinid Times 13: 4–7.

O'Hara, J.E. 2000. Some corrections to Sabrosky's Family-group names in Diptera. The Tachinid Times 13: 3–4.

O'Hara, J.E. 2002. Advances in the phylogenetics of the Tachininae (Tachinidae). P. 177. In: Abstracts Volume, Fifth International Congress of Dipterology, Brisbane. 283 pp. + unpaginated Index.

O'Hara, J.E. 2002. Revision of the Polideini (Tachinidae) of America north of Mexico. Studia Dipterologica. Supplement 10: 170 pp.

O'Hara, J.E. 2002. Spring collecting in the Sonoran desert. The Tachinid Times 15: 3–4.

O'Hara, J.E. 2003. The tachinid fauna of Carnarvon National Park, Queensland, as revealed by hilltop collecting. The Tachinid Times 16: 5–8.

O'Hara, J.E. 2004. Tachinidae Resources Website. Diptera Data Dissemination Disk 2: Electronic publication.

O'Hara, J.E. 2005. A review of the tachinid parasitoids (Diptera: Tachinidae) of Nearctic Choristoneura species (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae), with keys to adults and puparia. Zootaxa 938: 1–46.

O'Hara, J.E. 2007. A new species of Myiopharus Brauer & Bergenstamm (Diptera: Tachinidae) parasitic on adults of the sunflower beetle, Zygogramma exclamationis (Fabricius). Zootaxa 1521: 31–41.

O'Hara, J.E. 2008. Cataloguing the Tachinidae. The Tachinid Times 21: 6–10.

O'Hara, J.E. 2008. Tachinid flies (Diptera: Tachinidae). Pp. 3675–3686. In: Capinera, J.L., ed., Encyclopedia of Entomology. Second Edition. Vol. 4, S–Z. Springer, Dordrecht. lxiii + 3225–4346 pp.

O'Hara, J.E. 2009. Resurrection of the name Pachycheta Portschinsky for a genus of Tachinidae (Diptera). Zootaxa 1989: 66–68.

O'Hara, J.E. 2011. Collecting and preserving tachinid legs for molecular study. The Tachinid Times 24: 11–14.

O'Hara, J.E. 2011. Cyber nomenclaturalists and the “CESA itch”. Zootaxa 2933: 57–64.

O'Hara, J.E. 2011. World genera of the Tachinidae (Diptera) and their regional occurrence. Version 6.0. PDF document, 75 pp.

O'Hara, J.E. 2012. Looking back on 25 issues of The Tachinid Times. The Tachinid Times 25: 1–2.

O'Hara, J.E. 2012. Review of Euthera (Diptera: Tachinidae) in North America with the description of a new species. Canadian Entomologist 144: 206–215.

O'Hara, J.E. 2012. Review of the tachinid fly diversity in the Gila National Forest, New Mexico. New Mexico Botanist, Special Issue No. 3 [= Proceedings of the Third Natural History of the Gila Symposium, October 14–16, 2010, Western New Mexico University, Silver City, New Mexico]: 32–41.

O'Hara, J.E. 2013. History of tachinid classification (Diptera, Tachinidae). ZooKeys 316: 1–34.

O'Hara, J.E. 2013. A visit to the Vienna Museum with a brief history of the tachinid collection. The Tachinid Times 26: 30–38.

O'Hara, J.E. 2013. Where in the world are all the tachinid genera? The Tachinid Times 26: 10–16.

O'Hara, J.E. 2014. New tachinid records for the United States and Canada. The Tachinid Times 27: 34–40.

O'Hara, J.E. 2014. World genera of the Tachinidae (Diptera) and their regional occurrence. Version 8.0. PDF document, 87 pp.

O'Hara, J.E. 2015. 8th International Congress of Dipterology, Potsdam, Germany, August 2014. The Tachinid Times 28: 20–21.

O'Hara, J.E. 2015. Vera Andreevna Richter 1936–2015. The Tachinid Times 28: 18–19.

O'Hara, J.E. 2016. Teratological specimens and the curious case of Girschneria Townsend. The Tachinid Times 29: 7–10.

O'Hara, J.E. 2016. World genera of the Tachinidae (Diptera) and their regional occurrence. Version 9.0. PDF document, 93 pp. Available at http://www.nadsdiptera.org/Tach/WorldTachs/Genera/Worldgenera.htm.

O'Hara, J.E. and Cerretti, P. 2016. Annotated catalogue of the Tachinidae (Insecta, Diptera) of the Afrotropical Region, with the description of seven new genera. ZooKeys 575: 1–344.
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O'Hara, J.E., Cerretti, P., Pape, T. and Evenhuis, N. L. 2011. Nomenclatural studies toward a world list of Diptera genus-group names. Part II: Camillo Rondani. Zootaxa 3141: 1–268.

O'Hara, J.E., Cerretti, P., Stireman, J.O. III and Winkler, I.S. 2014. Chasing tachinids 'Down Under'. Expeditions of the Phylogeny of World Tachinidae Project. Part II. Eastern Australia. The Tachinid Times 27: 20–31.

O'Hara, J.E. and Cooper, B.E. 1992. Revision of the Nearctic species of Cyzenis Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera: Tachinidae). Canadian Entomologist 124: 785–813.

O'Hara, J.E. and Evenhuis, N.L. 2011. Case 3539. Sturmia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830, Senometopia Macquart, 1834 and Drino Robineau-Desvoidy, 1863 (Insecta, Diptera, Tachinidae): proposed conservation of usage. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 68: 61–64.

O'Hara, J.E. and Evenhuis, N.L. 2012. Corrections to “Nomenclatural studies toward a world list of Diptera genus-group names”. The Tachinid Times 25: 15–16.

O'Hara, J.E. and Gray, D.A. 2005. Two new orthopteran hosts of North American Polideini (Diptera: Tachinidae). Entomological News 115 [2004]: 171–172.

O'Hara, J.E. and Henderson, S.J. 2017. Discovery of the tachinid Triarthria setipennis (Fallén) in Ottawa, Ontario, with notes on parasitism of the European earwig. The Tachinid Times 30: 14–20.

O'Hara, J.E., Raper, C.M., Pont, A.C. and Whitmore, D. 2013. Reassessment of Paleotachina Townsend and Electrotachina Townsend and their removal from the Tachinidae (Diptera). ZooKeys 361: 27–37.

O'Hara, J.E., Shima, H. and Zhang, C.-t. 2009. Annotated catalogue of the Tachinidae (Insecta: Diptera) of China. Zootaxa 2190: 1–236.

O'Hara, J.E., Skevington, J.H. and Hansen, D.E. 2004. A reappraisal of tachinid diversity in Carnarvon N.P., Australia, and estimation of the size of the Australian Tachinidae fauna. The Tachinid Times 17: 8–10.

O'Hara, J.E. and Stireman, J.O. III. 2016. Tachinidae of the Red River Gorge area of eastern Kentucky. The Tachinid Times 29: 13–17.

O'Hara, J.E., Stireman, J.O. III, Cerretti, P., Moulton, J.K. and Winkler, I.S. 2014. Diversity and systematics of the world Tachinidae (Diptera). P. 247. In: Dorchin, N., Kotrba, M., Mengual, X. and Menzel, F., eds., Abstract volume, 8th International Congress of Dipterology, Postdam. xxvii + 440 pp.

O'Hara, J.E. and Wood, D.M. 1998. Tachinidae (Diptera): nomenclatural review and changes, primarily for America north of Mexico. Canadian Entomologist 130: 751–774.

O'Hara, J.E. and Wood, D.M. 2004. Catalogue of the Tachinidae (Diptera) of America north of Mexico. Memoirs on Entomology, International 18: iv + 410 pp.

O'Hara, J.E., Wood, D.M., Richter, V.A., Shima, H. and Henderson, S.J. 2010. Building a unified classification of the Tachinidae (Diptera) of the world. P. 180. In: 8 August 2010 (Original source), Zumbado, M.A., ed., Abstracts Volume, 7th International Congress of Dipterology, San José. 296 pp. [Electronic publication.]

Ohsaki, N. and Sato, Y. 1999. The role of parasitoids in evolution of habitat and larval food plant preference by three Pieris butterflies. Researches on Population Ecology 41: 107–119.

Ohsaki, N., Sato, Y., Godfray, H.C.J. and Shimada, M. 1999. The role of parasitoids in evolution of habitat and larval food plant preference by three Pieris butterflies. Researches on Population Ecology (Special issue. Parasitoids: a model system to answer questions in behavioral, evolutionary and population ecology) 41: 107–119.

Ohwaki, A. and Nakamura, K. 2010. Population persistence of the parasitoid fly Zaira cinerea (Fallén) (Diptera: Tachinidae) utilizing multiple host carabid beetles with different seasonality and quality. Entomological Science 13: 280–287.

Okonya, J.S. and Kroschel, J. 2013. Pest status of Acraea acerata Hew. and Cylas spp. in sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.) and incidence of natural enemies in the Lake Albert crescent agro-ecological zone of Uganda. International Journal of Insect Science 5: 41–46.

Okubo, T., Yago, M. and Itiako, T. 2009. Immature stages and biology of Bornean Arhopala butterflies (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) feeding on myrmecophytic Macaranga. Transactions of the Lepidopterological Society of Japan 60: 37–51.

Okyar, Z., Yurtcan, M., Beyarslan, A. and Aktaç, N. 2012. The parasitoid complex of white-spotted pinion Cosmia diffinis (Linnaeus, 1767) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) on Ulmus minor Miller (Ulmaceae) in Edirne Province (European Turkey). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 85: 91–96.

Olea, M.S., Patitucci, L.D., Mariluis, J.C., Alderete, M. and Mulieri, P.R. 2016. Assessment of sampling methods for sarcosaprophagous species and other guilds of Calyptratae (Diptera) in temperate forests of southern South America. Journal of Medical Entomology (online).
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Olivares-Donoso, R., Fuentes-Contreras, E. and Niemeyer, H.M. 2000. Identificacion de parasitoides de Chelymorpha varians Blanchard (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae) en una localidad de Chile Central. Revista Chilena de Entomología 27: 65–69.

Oliver, J.C. and Prudic, K.L. 2007. Parasitism rates in larval Lycaena xanthoides (Godart) (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) and a new host record for Cotesia theclae (Riley) (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). Pan-Pacific Entomologist 83: 262–264.

Ollerton, J. and Liede, S. 1997. Pollination systems in the Asclepiadaceae: a survey and preliminary analysis. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 62: 593–610.

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Ordóñez-García, M., Rios-Velasco, C., Berlanga-Reyes, D.I., Acosta-Muñiz, C.H., Salas-Marina, M.Á. and Cambero-Campos, O.J. 2015. Occurrence of natural enemies of Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in Chihuahua, Mexico. Florida Entomologist 98: 843–847.
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Oshiki, T. and Nakazawa, K. 1987. Growth and development of the larva of an endoparasitoid, Exorista sorbillans in the larva of Bombyx mori. Journal of Sericultural Science of Japan 56: 494–499.

Oshiki, T., Nakazawa, K., Yokoyama, T., Nakayama, F. and Shimada, J. 1989. Parasitic habits of the tachinia fly, Exorista sorbillans. Bulletin of the Farms, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology 13: 22–33. [In Japanese.]

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Özbek, H. and Çoruh, S. 2012. Larval parasitoids and larval diseases of Malacosoma neustria L. (Lepidoptera: Lasiocampidae) detected in Erzurum Province, Turkey. Turkish Journal of Zoology 36: 447–459.

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Özdikmen, H. 2006. New substitute names for two preoccupied tachinid genera Paragonia Mesnil, 1950 and Menetus Aldrich, 1926 (Diptera). Munis Entomology & Zoology 1: 270–272.

Özdikmen, H. 2007. A nomenclatural act: replacement names for homonymous tachinid genera with lepidopteran genera (Diptera: Tachinidae). Munis Entomology & Zoology 2: 163–168.

Özdikmen, H. 2010. Brasilomyia nom. nov., a new name for the preoccupied tachinid genus Platyphasmia Townsend, 1935 (Diptera: Tachinidae). Munis Entomology & Zoology 5: 293–294.
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Özdikmen, H. and Abang, F. 2006. Sarawaka nom. nov, a replacement name for preoccupied genus Cleonice Thomson, 1864 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae). Munis Entomology & Zoology 1: 55–56.