Insecta - Diptera - Bibionidae
Alternative spelling: Hesperinidae
Synonyms: Penthetriidae Rohdendorf 1946, Penthetriinae Rohdendorf 1946
Parent taxon: Bibionidae according to J. Skartveit et al. 2025
See also Hong 2002, Hong and Wang 1985, Nel et al. 2019, Skartveit 2009, Skartveit and Ansorge 2020 and Skartveit and Wedmann 2021
Sister taxa: Bibio elongatus, Bibio incrassatus, Bibio linearis, Bibio robustus, Bibioninae, Burmahesperininae, Cascopleciinae, Cretobibioninae, Pleciinae, Protomyia adusta, Protomyia formicoides, Protomyia fusca
Subtaxa: Hesperinus Longicornia Penthetria Protopenthetria
Type: Hesperinus
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Germany (1 collection), Japan (2)
• Miocene of Croatia (6), Czechia (1), Germany (4), Greece (2), Iceland (1), Italy (2), Spain (3), Türkiye (1)
• Oligocene of France (13), Germany (7), United States (4: Colorado, Montana)
• Eocene of Canada (5: British Columbia), China (1), France (3), the Russian Federation (4), the United Kingdom (1), United States (2: Colorado)
• Cretaceous of Myanmar (4)
Total: 67 collections including 139 occurrences