Pliomelaena brevifrons

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|genus = Pliomelaena

|species = brevifrons

|authority = Bezzi, 1918{{cite journal |last1=Bezzi |first1=Mario |title=Notes on the Ethiopian fruit-flies of the family Trypaneidae, other than Dacus (s.l.) (Dipt.). --II |journal=Bulletin of Entomological Research |date=1918 |volume=9 |pages=13–46 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35615873#page/31/mode/1up |access-date=5 February 2021}}

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|synonyms = *Euaresta brevifrons Bezzi, 1918

• Pliomelaena brevifrons ssp. perspicua Munro, 1947{{cite book |last1=Munro |first1=H.K. |title=African Trypetidae (Diptera). A review of the transition genera between TephPliomelaena brevifronsritinae and Trypetinae, with a preliminary study of the male terminalia |date=1947 |publisher=Entomological Society of Southern Africa |location=Southern Africa |pages=[viii] + 28}}
• Pliomelaena brevifrons ssp. regressa Munro, 1947
• Pliomelaena brevifrons var. aspila Bezzi, 1924{{cite journal |last1=Bezzi |first1=Mario |title=Trypaneides d'Afrique (Dipt.) de la collection du Museum National de Paris. (Suite.) [concl.] |journal=Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle Paris |date=1924 |volume=1924 |pages=88–91}}
• Pliomelaena brevifrons var. rufiventris Bezzi, 1924
• Pliomelaena xyphosiina Bezzi, 1924

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Pliomelaena brevifrons is a species of tephritid or fruit flies in the genus Pliomelaena of the family Tephritidae.{{cite journal |last1=Norrbom |first1=A.L. |last2=Carroll |first2=L.E. |last3=Thompson |first3=F.C. |last4=White |first4=I.M |last5=Freidberg |first5=A. |title=Systematic Database of Names. Pp. 65-252. In Thompson, F. C. (ed.), Fruit Fly Expert Identification System and Systematic Information Database. |journal=Myia |date=1999 |volume=9 |pages=vii + 524}}