Crane flies
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Other Identifiers
- Intro. to the study of insects, 1989:p. 535 (Family Tipulidae--crane flies)
- Web. 3(crane fly: any of numerous long-legged slender two-winged flies (Family Tipulidae))
- Britannica Micro.(crane fly, also called daddy long legs, any insect of the family Tipulidae. In English-speaking countries other than the U.S., the crane fly is popularly called daddy long legs because it has a slender mosquito-like body and extremely long legs. (In the U.S. "daddy longlegs" generally refers to an arachnid.))
- Encarta world Eng. dict.:daddy longlegs (1. long-legged arachnid of order Opiliones. 2.=crane fly)
- Klots, J.B. Living insects of the world, 1959:p. 206 (Craneflies--Family Tipulidae)
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Wikipedia description:
Tipulidae is a family of large crane flies in the order Diptera. There are more than 30 genera and 4,200 described species in Tipulidae, common and widespread throughout the world. A crane fly can be identified as a member of Tipulidae by its maxillary palps, which is the pair of appendages that hang down from the front of its head. If the fourth segment (the furthest from the body) of the maxillary palp is longer than the other three combined, then it is likely to be a member of Tipulidae. There are also usually 13 segments in the antennae of large crane flies, compared to 14 or 16 in the common limoniid crane flies. See [1] for details of morphology. The oldest fossils that can be assigned confidently to Tipulidae sensu stricto are those of the genus Tipunia, which date to the Late Jurassic.
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