Discobola

Discobola
Discobola dohrni
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Limoniidae
Subfamily:	Limoniinae
Genus:	Discobola Osten Sacken, 1865
Type species
Limnobia argus Say, 1824 [= annulata (Linnaeus, 1758)]
Species
See text

Discobola is a genus of crane fly in the family Limoniidae.

Description

Discobola specimens are recognized by their extensively maculate (blotched) or ocellate (spotted) wing markings, by the presence of an A1 cross vein on the wings, and by spined or pectinate (comb like) claws. Specimens from New Zealand are distinctive from those of other locations in having slightly different male genitalia. ^[1]

Distribution

New Zealand, Australia & Chile. ^[1]

Species

• D. acurostris (Alexander, 1943)
• D. annulata (Linnaeus, 1758)
• D. armorica (Alexander, 1942)
• D. australis (Skuse, 1890)
• D. boninensis (Alexander, 1972)
• D. caesarea (Osten Sacken, 1854)
• D. calamites (Alexander, 1959)
• D. caledoniae (Alexander, 1948)
• D. dicycla Edwards, 1923
• D. dohrni (Osten Sacken, 1894)
• D. epiphragmoides (Edwards, 1933)
• D. euthenia (Alexander, 1958)
• D. freyana (Nielsen, 1961)
• D. fumihalterata (Alexander, 1955)
• D. gibberina (Alexander, 1948)
• D. gowdeyi (Alexander, 1933)
• D. haetara Johns and Jenner, 2006
• D. margarita Alexander, 1924
• D. moiwana Alexander, 1924
• D. neoelegans (Alexander, 1954)
• D. nigroclavata (Alexander, 1943)
• D. parargus (Edwards, 1933)
• D. parvispinula (Alexander, 1947)
• D. striata Edwards, 1923
• D. taivanella (Alexander, 1930)
• D. tessellata (Osten Sacken, 1894)
• D. venustula (Alexander, 1929)

References

1. Johns, Peter M.; Jenner, Lesley (2006). "The Crane-Fly Genus Discobola (Diptera: Tipulidae: Limoniinae) In New Zealand". Records of the Canterbury Museum (PDF). 20. Christchurch, New Zealand: Canterbury Museum: 35–53.

• "Catalogue of the Craneflies of the World (Diptera, Tipuloidea: Pediciidae, Limoniidae, Cylindrotomidae, Tipulidae)". Naturalis Biodiversity Center.