Mormotomyiidae
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The family Mormotomyiidae (Diptera: Hippoboscoidea) contains only one known species, Mormotomyia hirsuta Austen, from Kenya. Specimens have been collected from one rock on one mountain, in a cleft where a bat roost is located; this may possibly be the most restricted geographic distribution for any fly. The larvae have been collected from bat feces. Adult flies are believed to feed on bodily secretions of bats.
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