Short-palped Crane Fly S14, Female, dorsal, close | Short-palped Crane Fly S5, Female, profile | |||||
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: | 🔍S3, Male, dorsal🔎 | ||||
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. | |||||
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