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two-dot white crane fly - Tipula duplex - female
Copyright © 2005 Robin McLeod

two-dot white crane fly - Tipula duplex - Female
London, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada
August 14, 2004
Size: body about 20 mm
On goldenrod in damp meadow beside river.

Update 28 Sep 2006: Thanks to Chen Young for the identification; see comment below.
Contributed by Robin McLeod on 28 September, 2005 - 5:34pm
Last updated 29 September, 2006 - 6:18pm

Lunatipula duplex
Identified by Chen Young. A copy of the image is on the Crane Flies of Pennsylvania page, along with a note saying that this individual is parasitized by a big-headed fly (Pipunculidae) in the genus Nephrocerus; it's an endoparasitoid inside the swollen abdomen of this female.

Image moved from subgenus Lunatipula to L. duplex page.
… Robin McLeod, 28 September, 2006 - 6:49pm

Tipulidae
A famale of Tipula (Lunatipula) group - Chen
… Chen Young, 11 October, 2005 - 12:47pm

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