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Winter Crane Fly? - Cramptonomyia spenceri - female

Winter Crane Fly? - Cramptonomyia spenceri - Female
Sitka County, Alaska, USA
February 25, 2015
Also posted on inaturalist.
http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/2611990

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Winter Crane Fly? - Cramptonomyia spenceri - female Winter Crane Fly? - Cramptonomyia spenceri - female

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I don't think this species is known from Alaska, but it lives in coastal forests to the south and you are within the range of red alder.

 
Thanks-
yes, there was lots of red alder right adjacent to where I was parked when this landed on my car.

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