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Family Limoniidae - Limoniid Crane Flies

Crane Fly - Limnophila rufibasis Is this covered in your guide? Snow Fly - Chionea valga - female BG765 C7642 - Dicranoptycha elsa - female Crane Fly - Epiphragma fasciapennis BG1017 C9615 - Limonia domestica - male BG2019 E3075 - Helius flavipes - female Black  flying insect - Eugnophomyia luctuosa
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon ("Nematocera" (Non-Brachycera))
Infraorder Tipulomorpha
Family Limoniidae (Limoniid Crane Flies)
Other Common Names
Meadow Crane Flies (?)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Formerly a subfamily, Limoniinae, of Tipulidae.
Explanation of Names
limon is Greek for meadow (1)
Numbers
Large family with many species (2)
Identification
terminal (fourth) segment of maxillary palpus short or subequal to third segment
antennae usually with 14 or 16 segments
The above characteristics of Limoniidae (and the differences in Tipulidae mentioned below) were noted in a comment by Chen Young here:
See Also
terminal (fourth) segment of maxillary palpus elongate, longer than first three segments combined
antennae usually with 13 segments
Internet References
Crane Flies of Pennsylvania (Chen Young and James Fetzner, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh)
Limoniidae - Wikipedia