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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X, list of scientific terms with Scottish connections).
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MACHARDYI. Zool. Specif. name of a Culicoides or midge (1960 Campbell & Pelham-Clinton in Proc. Royal Soc. Edb. (B) LXVII. 235).
[After J. W. McHardy, of Edinburgh, Lecturer in Entomology at Edinburgh University, entomologist in Tanganyika.]
