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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Nematocera" (Non-Brachycera) » Gnats, Gall Midges, and March Flies (Bibionomorpha) » Fungus Gnats and Gall Midges (Sciaroidea) » Long-beaked fungus gnats (Lygistorrhinidae) » Lygistorrhina » Lygistorrhina sanctaecatharinae
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crane fly-shaped unknown flies - Lygistorrhina sanctaecatharinae
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crane fly-shaped unknown flies - Lygistorrhina sanctaecatharinae
Great Smoky Mountains NP, Ramsey Cascades, Sevier County, Tennessee, USA
September 11, 2005
Size: approx 1 cm in length
Notable characters: long, thick antennae and long bee-fly-like proboscis, simple wing venation (few if any closed cells), prominent halteres

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crane fly-shaped unknown flies - Lygistorrhina sanctaecatharinae crane fly-shaped unknown flies - Lygistorrhina sanctaecatharinae - male crane fly-shaped unknown flies - Lygistorrhina sanctaecatharinae - male crane fly-shaped unknown flies - Lygistorrhina sanctaecatharinae - male
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Contributed by Will Kuhn on 3 March, 2019 - 8:41am
Last updated 4 January, 2021 - 11:50am

date?
Hey Will, is the date correct on these photos? Were they really taken on January 19? I know that Tennessee's in the south and all, but I wouldn't expect a plant in the Great Smoky Mountains to be blooming at that time of year, much less covered with insects...
… Joshua Stuart Rose, 14 April, 2020 - 5:48pm login or register to post comments

 
sent email on this 1/3/21
I sent Will an email about this 3 January 2021. Hoping for a correction--January does look off.
… Cotinis, 3 January, 2021 - 12:22pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… John F. Carr, 3 March, 2019 - 2:27pm login or register to post comments

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