Species Thevenetimyia longipalpus (Hardy, 1921)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Eclimus longipalpus Hardy, G.H. 1921. Australian Bombyliidae and Cyrtidae (Diptera). Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1921: 41-83 [63].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMSA K.44412 ♂, Australia, NSW, Sydney [33° 59' 29" S 151° 14' 38" E].

  Type locality references:

  Evenhuis, N.L. & Greathead, D.J. 1999. World Catalog of Bee Flies (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Leiden, Netherlands : Backhuys xlviii+756 pp. [211].

Generic Combinations

• Thevenetimyia longipalpus (Hardy, 1921).

Introduction

Diagnosis and description revised and new records added by Li et al. (2018), who also described the pupal cases.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, 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)

Distribution References

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 [349, 371]

History of changes