Thevenetimyia Bigot Thevenemyia Bigot, 1875 a: 196 [1875b: clxxiv] (as genus). Type species: Thevenemyia californica Bigot, 1875, by monotypy. Thevenetimyia (as genus; justified emendation of Thevenemyia [by Bigot, 1892: 339]). Type species: Thevenemyia californica Bigot, 1875, automatic. Epibates Osten Sacken, 1877: 268. Type species: Epibates funestus Osten Sacken, 1877, by subsequent designation (Coquillett, 1910: 538). Comments: This genus is principally North American, but is represented by six species in Australia and two in the Mediterranean Basin. Unlike Eclimus spp., the adults are covered in hair of various colours. Key: Hall (1969). Hosts: There are two records of North American species reared in association with wood-boring beetles (du Merle 1975). Distribution: Holarctic and Australia. North Africa: Algeria: 1 species; Thevenetimyia quedenfeldti (Engel).

Published as part of Greathead, D. J. & Evenhuis, N. L., 2001, Annotated keys to the genera of African Bombylioidea (Diptera: Bombyliidae; Mythicomyiidae), pp. 105-224 in African Invertebrates 42 (1820) on page 167, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7909975