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Species Nephrotoma altissima

Black Crane Fly - Nephrotoma altissima - female

Fancy cranefly - Nephrotoma altissima - male

Orange and black crane fly - Nephrotoma altissima - female

Not sure what this is - Nephrotoma altissima - female

Black pointed bug - Nephrotoma altissima - female

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 Nephrotoma (Tiger Crane Flies)

No Taxon (lundbecki species group)

Species altissima (Nephrotoma altissima)

Explanation of Names

Nephrotoma altissima (Osten Sacken 1877)

Range

AK-NT-ON south to OR-AZ-NM-WI(1)-NY-MA (BG records)

Upper Midwest and boreal-montane areas of West (Ooesterbroek 1984)

Works Cited

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

Contributed by Chen Young on 3 September, 2008 - 9:58am
Additional contributions by Vox Sciurorum, v belov
Last updated 6 March, 2019 - 11:09am

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