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

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.7909975
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7911055
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scientific name	Thevenetimyia Bigot
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Thevenetimyia Bigot View in CoL View at ENA

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) .