Insecta - Diptera - Bibionidae
Alternative spelling: Hesperinidae
Synonyms: Penthetriidae Rohdendorf 1946, Penthetriinae Rohdendorf 1946
Parent taxon: Bibionidae according to J. Skartveit and S. Wedmann 2021
See also Hong 2002, Hong and Wang 1985, Nel et al. 2019, Skartveit 2009 and Skartveit and Ansorge 2020
Sister taxa: Bibio elongatus, Bibio incrassatus, Bibio linearis, Bibio robustus, Bibioninae, Burmahesperininae, Cretobibioninae, Dilophus magnus, Pleciinae, Protomyia adusta, Protomyia formicoides, Protomyia fusca
Subtaxa: Hesperinus Longicornia Penthetria
Type: Hesperinus
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Japan (2 collections)
• Miocene of Austria (1), Croatia (6), the Czech Republic (1), Germany (4), Greece (2), Iceland (1), Italy (2), Turkey (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)
Total: 60 collections including 122 occurrences