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Genus Tethina

Tethinid Fly - Tethina Fly - Tethina milichioides - male Fly - Tethina parvula Flies - Tethina parvula - male - female amorous flies - Tethina parvula - male - female Tethina Tethina Tethina
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon ("Acalyptratae")
Superfamily Carnoidea
Family Canacidae
Subfamily Tethininae
Genus Tethina
Explanation of Names
Tethina Haliday in Curtis 1837
Numbers
~15 spp. in our area,
Range
Widespread
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, 1952
Rhicnoessa 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, 1976
Tethina 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, 1952
Rhicnoessa 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.