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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Nematocera" (Non-Brachycera) » Tipulomorpha » Crane Flies (Tipulidae) » Ctenophora

Genus Ctenophora

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Identification · Life Cycle · Remarks · Internet References
Female Crane Fly - Ctenophora Crane Fly - Ctenophora dorsalis - male Fly Larva - Ctenophora dorsalis Crane Fly - Ctenophora dorsalis - female Crane Fly - Ctenophora dorsalis - female A pair for Chen - Ctenophora dorsalis - male - female Crane fly wasp mimic? - Ctenophora nubecula Ctenophora dorsalis - male
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon ("Nematocera" (Non-Brachycera))
Infraorder Tipulomorpha
Family Tipulidae (Crane Flies)
Genus Ctenophora
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
includes the subgenera Ctenophora and Tanyptera
Numbers
4 species in North America: 3 listed under Ctenophora, and 1 listed under Tanyptera at nearctica.com
3 species in Pennsylvania (Craneflies of Pennsylvania, Carnegie Museum of Natural History)
Identification
legs relatively short - for a crane fly - and stocky; male has pectinate (comb-like) antennae
Life Cycle
larvae develop in soft dead wood
Remarks
"Ctenophora" also refers to the group of marine invertebrates commonly known as comb-jellies.
Internet References
live adult images of Ctenophora flaveolata female [Lujza Ujvarosi, Romania] and Tanyptera dorsalis female [David Funk, Pennsylvania] (Catalog of the Crane Flies of the World, U. of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
live adult image of C. ornata male, showing pectinate antennae (Josef Hlasek, Czech Republic)
live adult images of Ctenophora species [Erich Mangl, Austria] (FUNET)
live adult image of mating pair (Larry West, Michigan, FLPA)
preserved adult images of C. pectinicornis (Malcolm Storey, Bioimages UK)
reference: larval development site (biodiversity.org.uk)
crane flies of Pennsylvania Tipulinae (Ctenophora)
Contributed by Robin McLeod on 27 July, 2005 - 4:52pm
Additional contributions by Chen Young
Last updated 4 November, 2005 - 1:29pm

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