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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Nematocera" (Non-Brachycera) » Crane Flies (Tipulomorpha) » Large Crane Flies (Tipulidae) » Tipulinae » Tiger Crane Flies (Nephrotoma) » lundbecki species group (Nephrotoma lundbecki species group) » Nephrotoma altissima
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Black Crane Fly - Nephrotoma altissima - female
Copyright © 2005 Jay Cossey

Black Crane Fly - Nephrotoma altissima - Female
Point Pelee National Park, Ontario, Canada
May 28, 2005
Size: 1.25 inches (approx.)
Anyone know the species on this Crane Fly? I'm guessing it's a female?

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Contributed by Jay Cossey on 1 June, 2005 - 1:27pm
Last updated 3 September, 2008 - 10:17am

Moved
Moved from Tiger Crane Flies.
… Chen Young, 3 September, 2008 - 10:17am login or register to post comments

Crane fly - Nephrotoma
A dark form female of Nephrotma pedunculata or Nephrotoma lugens - Chen
… Chen Young, 15 August, 2005 - 11:14am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks for the ID!
Thanks for the ID!

Jay Cossey
PhotographsFromNature.com
… Jay Cossey, 15 August, 2005 - 12:59pm login or register to post comments

moved
to the crane fly guide page.
… Lynette Elliott, 11 July, 2005 - 3:56pm login or register to post comments

Wow, what a magnificent beast
Wow, what a magnificent beast - definitely female, but I've never seen anything like that coloring - neither the black wings, nor the gold metalflake abdomen. And I spent the greater part of 2 hours researching tipulidae today. Great image.
… Bruce Marlin, 2 June, 2005 - 5:19pm login or register to post comments

 
Hmm. I had one that looks a
Hmm.
I had one that looks a lot like that, also from Point Pelee determined to be Lunatipula disjuncta, the same as one I already had from Chicago.
… Rob Curtis, 1 September, 2005 - 4:50pm login or register to post comments

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