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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Nematocera" (Non-Brachycera) » Crane Flies (Tipulomorpha) » Hairy-eyed Crane Flies (Pediciidae) » Pedicia » subgenus Pedicia (Pedicia subgenus Pedicia) » albivitta or goldsworthyi (Pedicia albivitta or goldsworthyi)
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Pedicia crane fly - rear - Pedicia - female
Copyright © 2005 Robin McLeod

Pedicia crane fly - rear - Pedicia - Female
Ailsa Craig, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada
September 16, 2005
Size: body 38 mm
Came to garage light. Other measurements were wingspan (60) and legspan front to back (100 mm). The body length is the same as Matthew's photo (1.5 inches). In the full-size version of his and David's photo, the ends of the halteres look sharp-angled, whereas in my shot they look rounded like a spoon. Is that a variable feature?

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Pedicia crane fly - rear - Pedicia - female Pedicia crane fly - front - Pedicia - female Pedicia crane fly - side - Pedicia - female
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Contributed by Robin McLeod on 18 September, 2005 - 1:12pm
Last updated 9 June, 2019 - 10:21am

Moved
Moved from Giant Eastern Crane Fly.
… John F. Carr, 9 June, 2019 - 10:21am login or register to post comments

Pedicia albivitta
All the photos belong to the species of Pedicia albivitta, the most commonly encountered species of Pedicia. It has two distinct flight periods May/June and September/October. The shape of the end of the halteres (capitulum) does not vary. The photo of Matthew’s could be the specimen was dead and the halteres started to dehydrate. One character to tell the Pedicia specie apart is whether the dark seam along the lower edge of the wing reach the margin of the wing or not. Check the images of Pedicia procteriana in Crane Flies of Pennsylvania under Aquatic Species, where the dark seam does not reach the margin of the wing - Chen
… Chen Young, 19 September, 2005 - 8:41am login or register to post comments

 
P. albivitta
Thanks, Chen. I've moved all the Pedicia images to the new guide page.
… Robin McLeod, 20 September, 2005 - 12:31am login or register to post comments

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