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Genus Angarotipula

green-eyed cranefly - Angarotipula illustris - male

Crane fly? Species Angarotipula illustris - Angarotipula illustris - female

Tipulidae: Tipula fuliginosa? - Angarotipula illustris

Tipulomorpha - Crane Flies - Angarotipula illustris

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Diptera (Flies)

No Taxon ("Nematocera" (Non-Brachycera))

Infraorder Tipulomorpha (Crane Flies)

Family Tipulidae (Large Crane Flies)

Subfamily Tipulinae

Genus Angarotipula

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Angarotipula Savchenko 1961

sometimes treated as a subgenus of Tipula

Explanation of Names

Angara is a name for eastern Siberia, where Savchenko believed the group evolved.

Numbers

2 spp. in our area, 14 total(1)

Range

Holarctic & Oriental (all but 2 nearctic spp. are in E/SE Asia); in our area, transcontinental, mostly northern(1)

Works Cited

1.	Oosterbroek P. (2023) Catalogue of the craneflies of the world

Contributed by v belov on 28 December, 2014 - 12:03pm
Additional contributions by Vox Sciurorum
Last updated 28 December, 2023 - 7:16pm

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