Species Thevenetimyia tenta Hall, 1969

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• Thevenetimyia tenta Hall, J.C. 1969. A review of the subfamily Cylleniinae with a world revision of the genus Thevenemyia Bigot (Eclimus auct.) (Diptera: Bombyliidae). University of California Publications in Entomology 56: 85 pp. [Date published 25 July] [75].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC 29-009852 ♂ (ex MacLeay Museum; 'spelt “Currajang” in Hall (1969: 76)'), Australia, NSW, Currajong.

  Type locality references:

  Evenhuis, N.L. & Greathead, D.J. 1999. World Catalog of Bee Flies (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Leiden, Netherlands : Backhuys xlviii+756 pp. [213].

Introduction

Male described for the first time and diagnosis revised by Li et al. (2018).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

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 [367]

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