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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Nematocera" (Non-Brachycera) » Crane Flies (Tipulomorpha) » Limoniid Crane Flies (Limoniidae) » Eriopterini » Erioptera » subgenus Erioptera (Erioptera subgenus Erioptera) » Erioptera septemtrionis
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midge? - Erioptera septemtrionis
Copyright © 2009 Jessica Lawrence

midge? - Erioptera septemtrionis
Prospect Hill, Caswell County, North Carolina, USA
June 18, 2009

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midge? - Erioptera septemtrionis - female midge? - Erioptera septemtrionis
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Contributed by Jessica Lawrence on 18 June, 2009 - 9:16am
Last updated 21 November, 2018 - 8:21am

Moved
Moved from Erioptera.
… John F. Carr, 21 November, 2018 - 8:21am login or register to post comments

Not a midge
It's not a midge (biting, non-biting, or phantom). It has a resemblence to a crane fly but the wing veins seem wrong.
… John F. Carr, 18 June, 2009 - 9:28am login or register to post comments

 
i didn't think it was a crane fly
because it's really really tiny, I should have put size, it was less than a cm
… Jessica Lawrence, 18 June, 2009 - 9:32am login or register to post comments

 
Some crane flies are small
Some crane flies are small. See Erioptera. There are also other families of fly with long antennae and long legs and complicated wing venation.
… John F. Carr, 18 June, 2009 - 9:33am login or register to post comments

 
I had a limoniid
that this reminded me of... but I don't know if it matches...
… Jessica Lawrence, 18 June, 2009 - 9:36am login or register to post comments

 
This female
does looks like one of the Erioptera species. John is correct about the size of crane flies, the smallest one only 2mm while the largest one in USA can reach 60mm, see here for info . - Chen
… Chen Young, 18 June, 2009 - 11:40am login or register to post comments

 
SWEET
a new fly at my house!
… Jessica Lawrence, 18 June, 2009 - 12:51pm login or register to post comments

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