Species Thevenetimyia nigrapicalis (Roberts, 1929)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Eclimus nigrapicalis Roberts, F.H.S. 1929. A revision of the Australian Bombyliidae (Diptera). III. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 54: 553-583 [Date published 16 December] [576].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM T3525 (29.xii.1927, F.H. Roberts), QLD: Goondiwindi.
  Paratype(s) QM T6499 (29.xii.1927, F.H. Roberts), QLD: Goondiwindi
  Comment: data taken from type specimens held at Qld Museum.

 

Generic Combinations

• Thevenetimyia nigrapicalis (Roberts, 1929).

 

Introduction

Diagnosis and description revised by Li et al. (2018), and new records added.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Data taken from type specimens held at Qld Museum

Known only from type locality.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Gulf Plains (GUP), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS)

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: parasitic (host(s): beetles ('Based on these records, the genus is a parasite of beetle larvae feeding on dead or decaying wood in both Australia and the USA' (Li et al. 2018))).

 

General References

Li, X., Rodrigues, P.F.M., Lamas, C.J.E. & Yeates, D.K. 2018. A review of the Australian species of Thevenetimyia Bigot, 1875 (Bombyliidae, Bombyliinae, Eclimini), with description of four new species and the pupal case of T. longipalpis (Hardy). Records of the Australian Museum 70(3): 331–375 [358]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
28-Jun-2018	Bombyliinae	21-Jun-2018	MODIFIED
		26-Aug-2010	ADDED