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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 » Cheilotrichia
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Midge or Crane Fly ? - Cheilotrichia - female
Copyright © 2009 Mardon Erbland

Midge or Crane Fly ? - Cheilotrichia - Female
47.6563N 52.7380W (WGS84), Torbay, Northeast Avalon, Newfoundland/Labrador, Canada
August 4, 2009
Size: 8mm head to wing tips.
Is there an easy way to tell a midge from a crane fly? I seem unable to tell the difference. Sitting on the side of a house. Can the sex of this one be identified?

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Midge or Crane Fly ? - Cheilotrichia - female Midge or Crane Fly ? - Cheilotrichia - female
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Contributed by Mardon Erbland on 5 August, 2009 - 7:08am
Last updated 10 November, 2018 - 6:56pm

Moved
Moved from Erioptera.
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Moved
Moved from Tipulomorpha.
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Crane flies have a V shaped suture in the thorax.

Females have sharp-tipped abdomens, males have the usual nematoceran claspers.
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