Thevenetimyia Bigot, 1875

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 : 167

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scientific name	Thevenetimyia Bigot
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Thevenemyia Bigot, 1875 a: 196 [1875b: clxxiv] (as genus). Type species: Thevenemyia californica Bigot, 1875 View in CoL , by monotypy.

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

Epibates Osten Sacken, 1877: 268 . Type species: Epibates funestus Osten Sacken, 1877 View in CoL , 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) .

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.

DU MERLE, P. 1975. Les hotes et les stades pre-imaginaux des Dipteres Bombyliidae: revue bibliographique annotee. Bulletin SROP 1975 / 4: 1 - 289.

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.

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.