| Hexatoma brachycera | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Limoniidae |
| Genus: | Hexatoma |
| Species: | H. brachycera |
| Binomial name | |
| Hexatoma brachycera (Osten Sacken, 1877) | |
| Synonyms [1] | |
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Hexatoma brachycera is a species of limoniid crane flies in the family Limoniidae. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
The Nematocera are a suborder of elongated flies with thin, segmented antennae and mostly aquatic larvae. This group is paraphyletic and contains all flies except for species from suborder Brachycera, which includes more commonly known species such as the housefly or the common fruit fly. The equivalent clade to Nematocera is the whole Diptera, with Brachycera as a subclade. Families in Nematocera include mosquitoes, crane flies, gnats, black flies, and multiple families commonly known as midges. The Nematocera typically have fairly long, fine, finely-jointed antennae. In many species, such as most mosquitoes, the female antennae are more or less threadlike, but the males have spectacularly plumose antennae.
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Limonia novaeangliae is a species of limoniid crane fly in the family Limoniidae.
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Limonia annulata is a species of limoniid crane fly in the family Limoniidae.
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Hexatoma spinosa is a species of limoniid crane fly in the family Limoniidae.
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