Hilarimorphidae

Hilarimorphidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Infraorder:	Asilomorpha
Superfamily:	Asiloidea
Family:	Hilarimorphidae
Genera
Hilarimorpha Hilarimorphites

The Hilarimorphidae or hilarimorphid flies are a family of Diptera. They are placed in the superfamily Asiloidea, though some considerable doubt exists, but the consensus is that they are most closely related to the Bombyliidae. Most species are nearctic.^[1][2]

Species

• Genus Hilarimorpha

• H. abuta Webb, 1974
• H. bumulla Webb, 1974
• H. californica Webb, 1974
• H. clavata Webb, 1974
• H. cunata Webb, 1974
• H. desta Webb, 1974
• H. ditissa Webb, 1975
• H. kena Webb, 1974
• H. lamara Webb, 1974
• H. lantha Webb, 1974
• H. loisae Webb, 1974
• H. mandana Webb, 1974
• H. mentata Webb, 1974
• H. mikii Williston, 1888
• H. modesta Webb, 1974
• H. obscura Bigot, 1887
• H. parva Webb, 1974
• H. pitans Webb, 1974
• H. punata Webb, 1974
• H. pusilla Johnson, 1923
• H. reparta Webb, 1974
• H. rivara Webb, 1975
• H. robertsoni Webb, 1974
• H. sidora Webb, 1974
• H. singularis Webb, 1974
• H. stena Webb, 1974
• H. tempa Webb, 1974

• Genus Hilarimorphites Grimaldi & Cumming, 1999 - extinct, known from New Jersey Cretaceous amber^[3]

• H. longimedia Grimaldi & Cumming, 1999
• H. setosa Grimaldi & Cumming, 1999
• H. superba Grimaldi & Cumming, 1999
• H. yeatesi Grimaldi & Cumming, 1999

References

1. NAGATOMI Akira (1982). "Genitalia of Hilarimorpha (Diptera, Hilarimorphidae)". Japanese Journal of Entomology (in Japanese). Kagoshima. 50 (4): 544–548. ISSN 0915-5805.
2. Webb, D. W. (1974). "A revision of the genus Hilarimorpha (Diptera: Hilarimorphidae)". Journal Kansas Entomology Society. Kansas Entomology Society. 47: 172–222.
3. Grimaldi, D.I.; Cumming, J.M. (1999). "Brachyceran Diptera in Cretaceous ambers and Mesozoic diversification of the Eremoneura" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. American Museum of Natural History (239): 1–124 pp.