Tethininae Hendel, 1916

McAlpine, D. K., 2007, The Surge Flies (Diptera: Canacidae: Zaleinae) of Australasia and Notes on Tethinid-Canacid Morphology and Relationships, Records of the Australian Museum 59 (1), pp. 27-64 : 42

Subfamily Tethininae Hendel, 1916 (as Tethinidae )

Included genera. Afrotethina Munari ; Dasyrhicnoessa Hendel (including Sigaloethina Munari ); Pseudorhicnoessa Malloch ; Tethina Haliday (including Rhicnoessa Loew ); Thitena Munari ;? Plesiotethina Munari.

Autapomorphy: frontal orbit with a series of proclinateinclinate setulae.

Shared apomorphies: all fronto-orbital bristles strongly curved outwards (shared with Canacinae ); humeral callus with at least two differentiated bristles (shared with Horaismopterinae ).

Distribution. Most tropical and warm-temperate coasts of the world.