South African nose flies (Diptera, Calliphoridae, Rhiniinae): taxonomy, diversity, distribution and biology Author Thomas-Cabianca, Arianna https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2126-6222 Department of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resources, University of Alicante, E- 03080, Alicante, Spain athomasbio@gmail.com Author Villet, Martin H. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4335-5667 Rhodes University, Southern African Forensic Entomology Research Laboratory, Grahamstown, South Africa Author Martinez-Sanchez, Anabel Department of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resources, University of Alicante, E- 03080, Alicante, Spain Author Rojo, Santos https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2160-9643 Department of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resources, University of Alicante, E- 03080, Alicante, Spain text Biodiversity Data Journal 2023 2023-01-13 11 72764 72764 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.11.e72764 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.11.e72764 1314-2828-11-e72764 483CCF09D3A05B029A3B4B4A30E4CB79 Fainia elongata (Bezzi, 1908) = Stomatorrhina elongata Bezzi, 1908: 38. Type locality : Bas-Congo [= Democratic Republic of Congo]. = Idiella major Malloch, 1926: 510. Type locality : Sierra Leone, Masimera to Yonnibanna. Distribution Afrotropical : Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Cote d'Ivoire, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia,?Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa (Fig. 3 ), Sudan (reported as Sudan Anglo-Egyptian), Tanzania, Togo, Uganda and Zimbabwe. Notes Preferred environment : in Namibia, apparently restricted to the Arid and Mesic Savannah Biomes ( Kurahashi and Kirk-Spriggs 2006 ). Recorded elevations : no data. Seasonality : A single specimen was collected in April. In Namibia, recorded in low numbers in December, February and March ( Kurahashi and Kirk-Spriggs 2006 ). Behaviour and ecology : unknown. Life cycle and developmental stages : unknown. Collection methods : light traps. In Namibia, it was attracted in low numbers to rotten fish in baited traps ( Kurahashi and Kirk-Spriggs 2006 ). Most often collected with Malaise traps in Central African Republic and Democratic Republic of Congo. Illustrations and photographs : male habitus as in Fig. 4 and figs. 8A-K in Thomas-Cabianca et al. (2021) . Male terminalia as in fig. 7 in Peris (1952b) , fig. 28 in Zumpt (1958) and figs. 9A-G in Thomas-Cabianca et al. (2021) . Material examined : Suppl. materials 1, 2.