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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Nematocera" (Non-Brachycera) » Phantom and Fold-winged Crane Flies (Ptychopteridae) » Bittacomorpha » Eastern Phantom Crane Fly (Bittacomorpha clavipes)

Species Bittacomorpha clavipes - Eastern Phantom Crane Fly

Classification · Other Common Names · Identification · Range · Habitat · Remarks
Phantom Crane Fly Bittacomorpha clavipes? - Bittacomorpha clavipes Unknown Flying Insect - Bittacomorpha clavipes Phantom Crane Fly - Bittacomorpha clavipes Crane Fly - Bittacomorpha clavipes Phantom Crane - Bittacomorpha clavipes Unknown Fly - Bittacomorpha clavipes Phantom Crane Fly - Bittacomorpha clavipes Phantom Cranefly - Bittacomorpha clavipes - male
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon ("Nematocera" (Non-Brachycera))
Family Ptychopteridae (Phantom and Fold-winged Crane Flies)
Genus Bittacomorpha
Species clavipes (Eastern Phantom Crane Fly)
Other Common Names
Phantom crane fly - note, however, that this name applies to a number of species of Ptychopteridae
Identification
Distinguished from the only similar Eastern species, Bittacomorphella jonesi, by the enlarged basitarsi. Distinguished from the Western Bittacomorpha occidentalis by range and white stripe on thorax.
Range
East of Rocky Mountains
Habitat
Swamps and similar wetlands
Remarks
This is the common Eastern species normally meant by the term "phantom crane fly"
Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 16 February, 2004 - 12:32pm
Additional contributions by Vox Sciurorum, PaleoJon
Last updated 12 November, 2021 - 9:43pm

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