A phylogeny of long-tongued horse flies (Diptera : Tabanidae : Philoliche) with the first cladistic review of higher relationships within the family

I would like to thank Jonathan Coville, Bruce Anderson, Craig Peter, Brian Spitzer, Kate Watermeyer, Clinton Carbutt, Craig McKune, and Rika DuPlessie for help in the field; Steven Johnson, my Fulbright sponsor at the University of KwaZulu Natal, for in-kind support and advice; Mike Picker, his laboratory in Zoology, and William Bond and the Botany Department for in-kind support and daily tea at the University of Cape Town; Catherine and Sheldon Conway for assistance and permission to collect on the Shaw Farm; the owners of Richmond Farm for permission to collect; Johan Esterhuisen for help collecting and the loan of H-Traps from the Hellsgate Tsetse Fly Research Station in St Lucia; to the Eastern Cape Nature Conservation, KwaZulu Natal Wildlife, the Cape Nature Conservation, and Limpopo Provincial Authority for collection permits; Natal Museum and Brian Stuckenberg, for in-kind support and kind advice. Thanks also to Matthew Buffington and two anonymous reviewers for comments on the manuscript. This research was completed in partial fulfillment of the Ph.D. Dissertation of the author in the Population Biology Graduate Group, UC Davis. Funding was provided by grants to the author from the Center for Population Biology, the National Science Foundation (DEB 0183288), and the USA Fulbright Program.

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