Hesperinus Walker, 1848

Skartveit, John & Wedmann, Sonja, 2021, A Revision of fossil Bibionidae (Insecta: Diptera) from the Oligocene of Germany, Zootaxa 4909 (1), pp. 1-77 : 12

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4909.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:92ECCF97-7315-4A1A-A94A-537D0F331EBF
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4464924
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/035E87B2-FFBB-FF95-FF02-37FBFBCAD277
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Hesperinus Walker, 1848
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Genus Hesperinus Walker, 1848 View in CoL View at ENA

The genus has frequently been placed in a family of its own, Hesperinidae (e.g., Krivosheina 1997, Skartveit 2009), however, recent, molecular studies (Sevčic et al. 2016) suggest it is relatively closely related to Penthetria . The genus has previously been found from the Oligocene of France ( Nel & Skartveit, 2012).