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Newly discovered populations of the "terrible hairy fly", Mormotomyia hirsuta Austen (Diptera: Mormotomyiidae) in Kenya, with further observations on natural history

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Copeland, Robert S., Bukhebi, Josephat, Kirk-Spriggs, Ashley H. (2014): Newly discovered populations of the "terrible hairy fly", Mormotomyia hirsuta Austen (Diptera: Mormotomyiidae) in Kenya, with further observations on natural history. African Invertebrates 55 (2): 419, DOI: 10.5733/afin.055.0202, URL: http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.5733/afin.055.0202

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