Hesperinidae

Podenas, Sigitas & Kim, Sun-Jae Park and A Young, 2020, Hesperinidae (Diptera: Bibionomorpha) a new family from the Korean Peninsula, Journal of Species Research 9 (2), pp. 170-173 : 171

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.12651/JSR.2020.9.2.170
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A8878C-FF95-FFD6-CBE7-765C668EFC0F
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Hesperinidae
status

Treatment

Family Hesperinidae View in CoL View at ENA

Hesperinidae View in CoL is a small relict family, probably the sister-group of Bibionidae ( Skartveit, 2017) View in CoL and closely related to the families Cramptonomyiidae , Pachyneuridae View in CoL and Pleciidae . Some authors treat it as a subfamily of Bibionidae View in CoL (Hardy & Takashi, 1960; Hardy, 1981). Hesperinidae View in CoL includes single genus Hesperinus Walker, 1848 View in CoL with only eight extant species. Six of these species are recorded from the Palearctic Region; of the two remaining species, one species is known from Canada and one from Brazil. In addition to extant species, three species are described from Eocene Baltic amber ( Skartveit, 2008), representatives of Hesperinidae View in CoL are also known from Oligocene deposits in France ( Nel & Skartveit, 2012).

Adults fly near small streams surrounded by trees and shrubs (Papp, 2010; Kurina, 2013). Larvae develop in decaying wood of deciduous trees ( Krivosheina & Mamaev, 1967).