Eclimus Loew, 1844

Greathead, D. J. & Evenhuis, N. L., 2001, Annotated keys to the genera of African Bombylioidea (Diptera: Bombyliidae; Mythicomyiidae), African Invertebrates 42 (1820), pp. 105-224 : 166

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Eclimus Loew View in CoL

Eclimus Loew, 1844: 154 View in CoL . Type species: Eclimus perspicillaris Loew, 1844 View in CoL , by subsequent designation (Coquillett, 1910: 536).

Eclimmus Agassiz, 1846: 134 (unjustified emendation of Eclimus Loew, 1844 View in CoL ). Type species: Eclimus perspicillaris Loew, 1844 View in CoL , automatic.

Comments: This genus comprises only two species of dark brown, elongate and bare flies, very different in habitus from Thevenetimyia , at one time regarded as a synonym.

Key: Hall (1969).

Distribution: Mediterranean Basin. North Africa: 1 species; Eclimus gracilis Loew.

AGASSIZ, J. L. R. 1846. Nomenclatoris zoologici index universalis, continens nomina systematica classium, ordinum, familiarum et generum animalium omnium, tam viventium quam fossilium, secundum ordinem alphabeticum unicum disposita, adjectis homonymiis plantarum, nec non variis adnotationibus et emendationibus. [= Fasc. XII]. Soloduri [= Solothurn], Switzerland: Jent & Gassmann.

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.

LOEW, H. 1844. Beschreibung einiger neuen Gattungen der europaischen Dipterenfauna. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 5: 114 - 30, 154 - 73.