Taxon classification Animalia Diptera Bombyliidae

Hemipenthes sinuosa (Wiedemann, 1821) Figure 12d

Material examined.

REC: Apr (3 F); REE: (Feb (1 F), Apr (2 F); RLC: Jul (1 F, 1 M), Sep (1 M); RPA: Sep (2 F).

Known Nearctic records.

Mexico (Coahuila, Morelos); USA (Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin).

Known host.

Neodiprion sertifer Geoff. ( Diprionidae).

Comments.

Hemipenthes sinuosa is only known from Morelos in the center of Mexico and Coahuila in the northeast, but can be found almost in all of the USA. It is clearly undersampled in Mexico.