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20 April 2007
Philoliche rondani ('Albany form')

Biology

This long-proboscis fly is closely related to P. rubiginosa and P. rondani (Morita 2006). This taxon will be desribed as a new combination pending publication.

Distribution

Southern Africa; known only in the Albany Centre. 

Works Cited

Morita, S. I. (2006). A revision of the Philoliche aethiopica species complex (Diptera: Tabanidae). In in Doctoral Dissertation: The evolution of long-proboscis horse flies (Diptera: Tabanidae) in the genus Philoliche (Wiedemann)' pp. 64-128. (University of California: Davis, sumbmitted to African Invertebrates.)

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