Hemipenthes Loew, 1869

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 : 210

Hemipenthes Loew

Hemipenthes Loew, 1869 c: 27 [1872 b: 141]. Type species: Musca morio Linnaeus, 1758 , by subsequent designation ( Coquillett, 1894: 90).

Isopenthes Osten Sacken, 1886: 80 , 96. Type species: Isopenthes jaennickeana Osten Sacken, 1886 , by subsequent designation (Coquillett, 1910: 556).

Comments: Hemipenthes spp. are Villa -like in external morphology (face not produced,

single onion-shaped flagellomere), but are Anthrax -like in appearance and colour.

Keys: Palaearctic, Engel (1932 –7).

Hosts: Parasitoids of the dipterous and hymenopterous parasitoids of Lepidoptera and

Diprionidae and their hosts ( du Merle 1975; Yeates & Greathead 1997). No records from Africa.

Distribution: Mainly Holarctic and Neotropical Regions. North Africa: 3 species;

Hemipenthes morio (Linnaeus) ( Morocco) , H. pauper (Becker) ( Algeria, Egypt), H.

velutina (Wiedemann) ( Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt). Africa South of the Sahara: Ethiopia:

1 species; H. ethiops Greathead.