Short-palped Crane Fly: S4, Female, Wing Venation

Class:

Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)

Order:

Flies (Diptera)

Family:

Large Crane Fly (Tipulomorpha: Tipulidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Short-palped Crane Fly (Dolichopeza sp)

This Photo:

🔍S4, Female, Wing Venation🔎

Thank you Tony Daley for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Adelaide Hills and elsewhere
~11mm long, ~24mm wingspan. Legs ~30mm long. Natural leg span ~47mm
The genders are easy to separate. Females have pointy rear end (difficult to see) and short antannae (easy to seey) compared with the males. Males have long antennae, approaching that of the fore-thigh, and claspers on the rear end.
14 specimens photographed in April, May & June.

This species is

Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.

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