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Thevenetimyia Bigot 1875

Description

Thevenetimyia Bigot

Thevenemyia Bigot, 1875 a: 196 [1875b: clxxiv] (as genus). Type species: Thevenemyia californica Bigot, 1875, by monotypy.

Thevenetimyia (as genus; justified emendation of Thevenemyia [by Bigot, 1892: 339]). Type species: Thevenemyia californica Bigot, 1875, automatic.

Epibates Osten Sacken, 1877: 268. Type species: Epibates funestus Osten Sacken, 1877, by subsequent designation (Coquillett, 1910: 538).

Comments: This genus is principally North American, but is represented by six species in Australia and two in the Mediterranean Basin. Unlike Eclimus spp., the adults are covered in hair of various colours.

Key: Hall (1969).

Hosts: There are two records of North American species reared in association with wood-boring beetles (du Merle 1975).

Distribution: Holarctic and Australia. North Africa: Algeria: 1 species; Thevenetimyia quedenfeldti (Engel).

Notes

Published as part of Greathead, D. J. & Evenhuis, N. L., 2001, Annotated keys to the genera of African Bombylioidea (Diptera: Bombyliidae; Mythicomyiidae), pp. 105-224 in African Invertebrates 42 (1820) on page 167, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7909975

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Bigot
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Diptera
Family
Bombyliidae
Genus
Thevenetimyia
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Thevenetimyia Bigot, 1875 sec. Greathead & Evenhuis, 2001

References

  • BIGOT, J. M. F. 1875 a. [Description d'une nouvelle espece de diptere]. Bulletin des Seances [Bimensuel] de la Societe Entomologique de France et Bulletin Bibliographique 1875 (18): 195 - 197.
  • OSTEN SACKEN, C. R. 1877. Western Diptera: descriptions of new genera and species of Diptera from the region west of the Mississippi, and especially from California. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories 3: 189 - 354.
  • HALL, J. C. 1969. A review of the Cylleniinae with a world revision of the genus Thevenemyia Bigot (Eclimus auct.) (Diptera: Bombyliidae). University of California Publications in Entomology 56: 1 - 85.
  • DU MERLE, P. 1975. Les hotes et les stades pre-imaginaux des Dipteres Bombyliidae: revue bibliographique annotee. Bulletin SROP 1975 / 4: 1 - 289.