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Genus Atarba

ID Me Please - Atarba picticornis - female Cranefly ID Request - Atarba picticornis Crane fly with mites - Atarba picticornis Small Crane Fly - Atarba picticornis mite and fly - Atarba picticornis - male - female Molophilus - for confirmation and record, please. - Atarba picticornis - male bland looking limoniid - Atarba picticornis - female Crane Fly ? - Atarba picticornis - female
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon ("Nematocera" (Non-Brachycera))
Infraorder Tipulomorpha (Crane Flies)
Family Limoniidae (Limoniid Crane Flies)
Tribe Hexatomini
Genus Atarba
Numbers
4 species in North America listed at nearctica.com
contains 3 subgenera: Atarba, Atarbodes, Ischnothrix
Size
body length 6-7 mm
Range
cosmopolitan
Habitat
grassy areas and on low vegetation in shaded open woods; larvae develop in saturated decaying wood
Internet References
pinned adult images of male and female A. picticornis plus description and habitat (Chen Young and James Fetzner, The Crane Flies of Pennsylvania, Carnegie Museum of Natural History)
classification in subfamily Chioneinae and list of subgenera (Catalogue of the Crane Flies of the World, Netherlands Biodiversity Information Facility, U. of Amsterdam)
distribution and references (Dept. of the Environment and Heritage, Australian Government)
Contributed by Robin McLeod on 17 August, 2006 - 11:19pm

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