Toxorhina alexanderi

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Toxorhina alexanderi
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Limoniidae
Genus: Toxorhina
Species:
T. alexanderi
Binomial name
Toxorhina alexanderi
Tjeder, 1981

Toxorhina alexanderi is a species of limoniid crane fly in the family Limoniidae. This tropical African species is known from a specimen taken in The Gambia, stored at the Lund Museum of Zoology Insect Collection at Lund University in Lund, Sweden. [1]

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References

  1. "Toxorhina (Ceratocheilus) alexanderi Tjeder, 1981" . Retrieved 2018-06-24.