Hemipenthes
Summary 2
Hemipenthes is a large genus of flies belonging to the family Bombyliidae (bee-flies). There are many described species, distributed throughout the Holarctic and Palearctic Ecozones. These are small to large robust flies with a body length of 5–14 mm. They can be distinguished from similar genera (Villa) by their wing venation.
Checklists 3
CAS
Hemipenthes bigradata (currently known as Villa bigradata according to http://diptera.org/NomenclatorDetail.php?Recn=373566)
Hemipenthes eumanes (misspelling of Hemipenthes eumenes)
Hemipenthes inops (currently known as Anthrax inops: http://diptera.org/NomenclatorDetail.php?Recn=386721, but treated in Hemipenthes on BG and iNat)
Hemipenthes mobile (currently known as Anthrax mobile: http://diptera.org/NomenclatorDetail.php?Recn=392266)
Hemipenthes morio (probably the same as H. morioides)
Hemipenthes pullata (seems current)
Hemipenthes seminigra (currently known as H. seminiger according to http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=135396, but probably the same as H. morioides)
Hemipenthes sinuosa
BugGuide
Hemipenthes edwardsii
Hemipenthes eumenes
Hemipenthes lepidota
Hemipenthes pullata
Hemipenthes sinuosa
Notes 4
This genus is kind of a mess. The treatment I'm currently using here is largely that of Joel Kits on BugGuide, but there is a very recent paper, A review of the North American species of Hemipenthes Loew, 1869 (Diptera: Bombyliidae) by Ávalos-Hernández that treats the genus differently. Kits critiques that paper for not examining many specimens and leaving many organisms still unidentifiable in the key, though it seems a better guide than most I've been able to find out there.
Sources and Credits
- (c) Sam Kieschnick, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Sam Kieschnick
- Adapted by Ken-ichi Ueda from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemipenthes
- (c) Ken-ichi Ueda, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)
- (c) Ken-ichi Ueda, some rights reserved (CC BY)
