Pseudorhyncomyia Peris, 1952b: 58

Kurahashi, Hiromu & Kirk-Spriggs, Ashley H., 2006, The Calliphoridae of Namibia (Diptera: Oestroidea), Zootaxa 1322 (1), pp. 1-131 : 94

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Genus: Pseudorhyncomyia Peris, 1952b: 58 View in CoL .

TYPE SPECIES: Rhyncomyia braunsi Villeneuve, 1920 a, by original designation .

NOTES: The two described species are restricted to the Afrotropical Region (Pont 1980: 783).

Pseudorhyncomyia braunsi (Villeneuve, 1920b: 158) (Rhynchomyia) .

Fig. 104 View FIGURES 99–104 .

TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa (Cape)

DISTRIBUTION: Namibia *, South Africa (Cape, Natal) and Tanzania.

MATERIAL: 1♂, Hungorob ravine at(1): 6.viii.2000, Meakin/Raleigh Int. ( LT) Bberg UV 52.

NOTES: Ferrar (1987: 90) notes that larvae of P. braunsi were found in South Africa in the rubbish heaps of harvester termites of the genus Hodotermes Hagen (Hodotermitidae) , which accumulate on the soil surface, near the opening of subterranean nests. Larvae were noted to attack live termites that approach the heaps and were successfully reared on live termites in culture. Pupariation was noted to occur under the heaps. In Namibia the species has only been collected at UVlight at low elevation on the Brandberg (700 m) in August. Currently only known from the Brandberg Massif on the edge of the namakaroo biome ( Fig. 104 View FIGURES 99–104 ).

Pseudorhyncomyia deserticola Zumpt and Argo, 1978: 35 View in CoL .

Fig. 105 View FIGURES 105–110 .

TYPE LOCALITY: South West Africa [= Namibia] .

DISTRIBUTION: Namibia.

PREVIOUS RECORDS: (holotype) Gobabeb [23°55'S, 15°03'E], 3.x.1967; (paratype) 100 miles W of Windhoek [22°57'S, 17°08'E], 2.x.1967 (Zumpt & Argo 1978: 37) GoogleMaps .

KNOWN RECORD: Namib Desert, Welwitschia ‘Forest’, nr. [22°38'S, 15°00'E], 3.x.1967, E GoogleMaps .R Ross & A.R. Stephens (NMSA).

MATERIAL: No recent Namibian material is available for study.

NOTES: Biology, life history and immature stages unknown, but are likely to mirror those of P. braunsi (vide supra). Pont (1980: 783) erroneously gives the type locality of this species as ‘Botswana’ (vide supra). Recorded from the desert and ‘arid’ savanna biomes of western and central Namibia ( Fig. 105 View FIGURES 105–110 ).