Explanation of Names
Tethina Haliday in Curtis 1837
Remarks
Checklist of species including distribution and synonymies of each species:
albula Loew, 1869: Massachusetts to Florida and Texas (Reference: Foster & Mathis, 1998; Mathis & Foster, 2007)
angustifrons Melander, 1952: California (Reference: Foster & Mathis, 2008)
angustipennis Melander, 1952: California (Reference: Foster & Mathis, 2008)Rhicnoessa denudata Melander, 1952Rhicnoessa lavendula Melander, 1952
horripilans Melander, 1952: Washington (Reference: Foster & Mathis, 2008)
milichioides Melander, 1913: California, Oregon, and Washington (Reference: Foster, 1976; Foster & Mathis, 2008)Tethina steyskali Foster, 1976Tethina woodi Foster, 1976
ochracea Hendel, 1913: Texas (Reference: Foster & Mathis, 1998)Rhicnoessa texana Malloch, 1913
pallipes* Loew, 1865 (Reference: Foster & Mathis, 2008)
parvula Loew, 1869: Washington and California to North Carolina and Québec (Reference: Mathis & Foster, 2007)Rhicnoessa whitmani Melander, 1913
prognatha Melander, 1952: California (Reference: Foster & Mathis, 2008)
sasakawai Foster & Mathis, 2008: British Columbia to California (Reference: Foster & Mathis, 2008)
spinulosa Cole, 1923: California (Reference: Foster & Mathis, 2008)
thula Sasakawa, 1986: Alaska (Reference: Foster & Mathis, 2008)
willistoni Melander, 1952: California to Florida and north to Massachusetts, Bermuda (Reference: Foster & Mathis, 1998, 2008; Mathis & Foster, 2007)Rhicnoessa bermudaensis Melander, 1952Rhicnoessa variseta Melander, 1952
xanthopoda Williston, 1896: Florida (Foster & Mathis, 1998, 2008)Rhicnoessa seriata Melander, 1952
*May eventually be found in western North America.
Print References
Foster, G. A. 1976. Notes on the phylogeny of the nearctic Tethinidae and a review of the genus
Neopelomyia Hendel and the
Tethina milichioides group (Diptera). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 78(3): 336-352. (
Biodiversity Heritage Library)
Foster, G. A., and Mathis, W. N. 1998. A revision of the family Tethinidae (Diptera) from the Carribean, Gulf of Mexico, and Bermuda. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 100(4): 601-632. (
Biodiversity Heritage Library)
Foster, G. A., and Mathis, W. N. 2008. Review of the genus
Tethina Haliday (Diptera: Canacidae: Tethininae) from western North America. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 110(2): 300-330. (
BioOne)
Mathis, W. N., and Foster, G. A. 2007. Canacidae (Diptera) from the Delmarva States. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 120(4): 387–428. (
BioOne)
Mathis, W. N., and Munari, L. 1996. World catalog of the family Tethinidae (Diptera). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 584: 1-27. (
Smithsonian Digital Repository)
Melander, A. L. 1913. A synopsis of the dipterous groups Agromyzinae, Milichiinae, Ochthiphilinae and Geomyzinae. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 21: 219-273, 283-300, 1 pl. (
Biodiversity Heritage Library)
Munari, L., and Evenhuis, N. L. 2000. Distributional notes and new synonymies in Tethinidae (Diptera). Studia Dipterologica 7(1): 145-148.