Genus Thevenetimyia Bigot, 1892

Museums

Regional Maps

• Thevenetimyia Bigot, J.M.F. 1892. Diptères nouveaux ou peu connus. 37e partie. XLVI Bombylidi (mihi) 1re partie. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France Supplement 61: 321-376 [Date published 28 December] [339] [justified emendation of Thevenemyia by Bigot, 1875].

  Type species:

   Thevenemyia californica Bigot, 1875 by original designation, see Evenhuis, N.L. & Greathead, D.J. 1999. World Catalog of Bee Flies (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Leiden, Netherlands : Backhuys xlviii+756 pp. [210].
• Thevenemyia Bigot, J.M.F. 1875. Description d'une nouvelle espèce de diptère. Bulletin Bimensuel de la Société Entomologique de France 60: 196-197 [Date published 30 September] [196] [unavailable name, incorrect original spelling].

  Type species:

   Thevenemyia californica Bigot, 1875 by monotypy, see Evenhuis, N.L. & Greathead, D.J. 1999. World Catalog of Bee Flies (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Leiden, Netherlands : Backhuys xlviii+756 pp. [210].

Introduction

Australian representation reviewed by Li et al. (2018), with addition of four new species.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP) ; NSW, Qld: Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Gulf Plains (GUP), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ) ; NT, Qld: Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD) ; Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Cape York Peninsula (CYP)

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

Li, X., Teasdale, L.C., Bayless, K.M., Ellis, A.G., Wiegmann, B.M., Lamas, J.E., Lambkin, C.L., Evenhuis, N.L., Nicholls, J.A., Hartley, D., Shin, S., Trautwein, M., Zwick, A., Lessard, B.D., & Yeates, D.K. 2021. Phylogenomics reveals accelerated late Cretaceous diversification of bee flies (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Cladistics 37: 276-297 [12] (previously placed as tribe Eclimini in subfamily Bombyliinae, reinstated to subfamily Ecliminae here based on phylogenomic data)

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