Tethepomyia Grimaldi and Cumming, 1999: 6

Grimaldi, David A., 2016, Diverse Orthorrhaphan Flies (Insecta: Diptera: Brachycera) In Amber From The Cretaceous Of Myanmar: Brachycera In Cretaceous Amber, Part Vii David A. Grimaldi, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2016 (408), pp. 1-132 : 60

Tethepomyia Grimaldi and Cumming, 1999: 6 .

EMENDED DIAGNOSIS: Minute flies with body length ca. 1.5 mm; head hemispherical, eyes large (holoptic in males, occupying most of head); antennal flagellum reduced to U-shaped article (known for three species); mouthparts reduced, where observed; thorax short and compact; legs without tibial spurs, tarsal segments (including basitarsomere) short, compact; empodium either minute or setiform; wing short, broad, venation highly reduced to vestige of R-R 1, sometimes with vestiges of Rs, M, Cu (forked in some species), and/or A. Abdomen slender, cylindrical; male genitalia relatively generalized, female with cerci modified into piercing oviscapt hooked ventrad (seen only in T. zigrasi ).

TYPE SPECIES: Tethepomyia thauma Grimaldi and Cumming, 1999 . New Jersey amber.