Ecliminae

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Antliophora
Ordo: Diptera
Subordo: Brachycera
Infraordo: Asilomorpha
Superfamilia: Asiloidea

Familia: Bombyliidae
Subfamilia: Ecliminae
Genera: Cyrtomyia – Eclimus – Lepidophora – Marmasoma – Palintonus – Paratoxophora – Thevenetimyia – Tillyardomyia

Name

Ecliminae Hall, 1969

References

J.P.W. Hall, 1969.

Greathead, D.J. 1988: The relationships of Tillyardomyia Tonnoir with a redefinition of the subfamily Ecliminae (Diptera: Bombyliidae). New Zealand entomologist, 11: 14–21. Abstract PDF
Li, X-K. & Yeates, D.K. 2018. One hundred years of solitude ended: A second species of Marmasoma White, 1916 (Diptera, Bombyliidae, Bombyliinae, Eclimini) from Australia. Zootaxa 4420(1): 34–42. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4420.1.2 Paywall. Reference page.
Rodrigues, P.F.M., McAlister, E. & Lamas, C.J.E. 2017. Review of Marmasoma White with lectotype designation of M. sumptuosum White and an identification key to the Australasian/Oceanian genera of Ecliminae (Diptera, Bombyliidae). Zootaxa 4232(2): 185–196. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4232.2.3. Reference page.
Zicha, Ondřej et al. Ecliminae – Taxon details on Biological Library (BioLib).

Ecliminae is a subfamily of bee flies in the family Bombyliidae. There are about 9 genera and more than 50 described species in Ecliminae.[1][2][3]
Thevenetimyia speciosa

Genera

These nine genera belong to the subfamily Ecliminae:[3]

Cyrtomyia Bigot, 1892 c g
Eclimus Loew, 1844 c g
Lepidophora Westwood, 1835 i c g b
Marmasoma White, 1916 g
Palintonus François, 1964 c g
Paratoxophora Engel, 1936 c g
Thevenetimyia Bigot, 1875 c g b
Tillyardomyia Tonnoir, 1927 c g
† Alepidophora Cockerell, 1909 g

Data sources: i = ITIS,[1] c = Catalogue of Life,[4] g = GBIF,[5] b = Bugguide.net[2]
References

"Ecliminae Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-12-31.
"Ecliminae Subfamily Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-12-31.
Evenhuis, N.L.; Greathead, D.J. (2015). "World catalog of bee flies (Diptera: Bombyliidae)". Retrieved 2018-12-31.
"Catalogue of Life". Retrieved 2018-12-31.

"GBIF". Retrieved 2018-12-31.

Further reading

Yeates, David K.; Greathead, David (1997). "The evolutionary pattern of host use in the Bombyliidae (Diptera): a diverse family of parasitoid flies". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 60 (2): 149–185. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.1997.tb01490.x.
McAlpine, J. F.; Petersen, B. V.; Shewell, G. E.; Teskey, H. J.; Vockeroth, J. R.; Wood, D. M., eds. (1981). Manual of Nearctic Diptera, Volume I. Agriculture Canada, Research Branch. ISBN 978-0-660-10731-8.