Nephrotoma | |
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Nephrotoma ferruginea | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Diptera |
Family: | Tipulidae |
Subfamily: | Tipulinae |
Genus: | Nephrotoma Meigen, 1828 |
Type species | |
Tipula dorsalis Fabricius, 1781 | |
Synonyms | |
Nephrotoma is a genus of crane flies. [1]
For terms see Morphology of Diptera.
Nephrotoma species have a lustrous body, appearing yellow with black or brown stripes and spots. If the body is black, there are coloured bands on the abdomen. The prescutum has three stripes. The proboscis (rostrum) is short and the antennae are verticillate. The subcosta (Sc) fuses with radial vein R slightly distal to the base of the radial sector vein Rs whilst no longer than the mediocubital cross-vein (m-cu). The first media vein termination (m1) is sessile, rarely short and petiolate. The m-cu is located before the base of the discal cell (d). The male genitalia segment Tergite-9 has microscopic black streaks at the apex.
The species are found in deciduous and mixed forests, shrubland and moist meadows.
The larvae live in soil and are sometimes harmful to agricultural crops and ornamental plants.
The Chioneinae are a subfamily of limoniid crane flies.
Antocha is a genus of crane flies in the family Limoniidae. It was first described by Baron Carl Robert Osten-Sacken in 1860.
Dicranomyia is a genus of crane fly in the family Limoniidae. Larvae are mostly aquatic or semi-aquatic, with an exception found in a single Hawaiian Islands species which has a leaf-mining larva.
Elephantomyia is a genus of crane fly in the family Limoniidae.
Eloeophila is a genus of crane fly in the family Limoniidae.
Erioptera is a genus of crane fly in the family Limoniidae.
Gonomyia is a genus of crane fly in the family Limoniidae.
Hexatoma is a genus of crane fly in the family Limoniidae.
Libnotes is a genus of crane fly in the family Limoniidae.
Ormosia is a genus of crane flies in the family Limoniidae.
Rhipidia is a genus of crane fly in the family Limoniidae.
Teucholabis is a genus of crane fly in the family Limoniidae.
Trentepohlia is a genus of crane fly in the family Limoniidae.
The Limnophilinae are a subfamily of tipulid crane flies. Some authors still use the name Hexatominae for this subfamily.
Dicranota is a genus of flies in the family Pediciidae.
Pselliophora is a genus of true crane fly.
Tipulinae is a subfamily of crane flies. It contains the typical crane flies from the genus Tipula.