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Crane fly

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Crane fly is a common name referring to any member of the insect family Tipulidae, of the order Diptera, true flies in the superfamily Tipuloidea. [1]

125 relations: Academic publishing, Acracantha, Algae, Amphibian, Angarotipula, Antenna (biology), Arachnid, Austrotipula, Bird, Brachypremna, Brackish water, Brithura, Carl Linnaeus, Carl Robert Osten-Sacken, CBBC, Charles Paul Alexander, Christian Rudolph Wilhelm Wiedemann, Clade, Cladistics, Clytocosmus, Cosmopolitan distribution, Ctenophora (fly), Ctenophorinae, Cylindrotoma, Cylindrotominae, Daniel William Coquillett, Deciduous (disambiguation), Dictenidia, Diogma, Dolichopeza, Dolichopezinae, Elnoretta, Enrico Brunetti, Entomology, Euvaldiviana, Family (biology), Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville, Fish, Fly, Frederick A. Askew Skuse, Frederick Wallace Edwards, Fresh water, Günther Enderlein, Genus, Goniotipula, Grigory Bey-Bienko, Hermann Loew, Holorusia, Hovapeza, Hovatipula, ..., Idiotipula, Ignaz Rudolph Schiner, Indotipula, Invasive species, Ischnotoma, Johann Wilhelm Meigen, John Curtis (entomologist), John O. Westwood, Jurassic, Justin Pierre Marie Macquart, Keiseromyia, Larva, Leptotarsus, Limoniinae, Liogma, Lord's, Macgregoromyia, Mammal, Megistocera, Mosquito, Nephrotoma, Nephrotoma appendiculata, Newsround, Nigrotipula, Ocean, Opiliones, Ornamental plant, Ovipositor, Ozodicera, Paraphyly, Pediciidae, Phalacrocera, Pholcidae, Pholcus phalangioides, Phoroctenia, Pierre André Latreille, Platyphasia, Prionocera, Prionota, Pselliophora, Ptilogyna, Pupa, Rostrum (anatomy), Royal Entomological Society Handbooks, Scamboneura, Sphaerionotus, Spider, Spiracle, Stibadocera, Stibadocerella, Stibadocerina, Stibadocerodes, Stilts, Synapomorphy and apomorphy, Tanyptera, Tertiary, TheJournal.ie, Thorax (insect anatomy), Tipula, Tipula oleracea, Tipula paludosa, Tipularia discolor, Tipulinae, Tipulodina, Tipuloidea, Trichoceridae, Triogma, Tropics, Urban legend, Valdiviana, Wicket, Willi Hennig, Wingspan, Zelandotipula, 10th edition of Systema Naturae. Expand index (75 more) »

Academic publishing

Academic publishing is the subfield of publishing which distributes academic research and scholarship.

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Acracantha

Acracantha is a genus of true crane fly.

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Algae

Algae (singular alga) is an informal term for a large, diverse group of photosynthetic organisms that are not necessarily closely related, and is thus polyphyletic.

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Amphibian

Amphibians are ectothermic, tetrapod vertebrates of the class Amphibia.

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Angarotipula

Angarotipula is a genus of true crane fly.

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Antenna (biology)

Antennae (singular: antenna), sometimes referred to as "feelers," are paired appendages used for sensing in arthropods.

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Arachnid

Arachnids are a class (Arachnida) of joint-legged invertebrate animals (arthropods), in the subphylum Chelicerata.

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Austrotipula

Austrotipula is a genus of true crane fly.

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Bird

Birds, also known as Aves, are a group of endothermic vertebrates, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.

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Brachypremna

Brachypremna is a genus of true crane fly.

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Brackish water

Brackish water is water that has more salinity than fresh water, but not as much as seawater.

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Brithura

Brithura is a genus of true crane fly.

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Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement as Carl von LinnéBlunt (2004), p. 171.

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Carl Robert Osten-Sacken

Carl Robert Osten-Sacken or Carl-Robert Romanovich, Baron von der Osten-Sacken (21 August 1828, St. Petersburg – 20 May 1906, Heidelberg) was a Russian diplomat and entomologist.

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CBBC

CBBC (short for Children's BBC) is a British children's television strand owned by the BBC and aimed for children aged from 6 to 12.

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Charles Paul Alexander

Charles Paul Alexander was an American entomologist born September 25, 1889, in Gloversville, New York.

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Christian Rudolph Wilhelm Wiedemann

Christian Rudolph Wilhelm Wiedemann (December 7, 1770 in Brunswick – December 31, 1840 in Kiel), was a German physician, historian, naturalist and entomologist.

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Clade

A clade (from κλάδος, klados, "branch"), also known as monophyletic group, is a group of organisms that consists of a common ancestor and all its lineal descendants, and represents a single "branch" on the "tree of life".

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Cladistics

Cladistics (from Greek κλάδος, cládos, i.e., "branch") is an approach to biological classification in which organisms are categorized in groups ("clades") based on the most recent common ancestor.

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Clytocosmus

Clytocosmus is a genus of true crane fly.

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Cosmopolitan distribution

In biogeography, a taxon is said to have a cosmopolitan distribution if its range extends across all or most of the world in appropriate habitats.

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Ctenophora (fly)

Ctenophora is a genus of true crane flies.

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Ctenophorinae

The Ctenophorinae are a subfamily of Tipulidae, the true crane flies.

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Cylindrotoma

Cylindrotoma is a genus of crane fly in the family Cylindrotomidae.

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Cylindrotominae

The Cylindrotominae are a subfamily from the Long-bodied Craneflies family Cylindrotomidae.

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Daniel William Coquillett

Daniel William Coquillett (23 January 1856, Pleasant Valley, Ill. – 7 July 1911 Atlantic City, New Jersey) was an American entomologist who specialised in Diptera.

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Deciduous (disambiguation)

The term deciduous refers to a biological process of losing or dropping appendages of the organism.

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Dictenidia

Dictenidia is a genus of true crane flies.

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Diogma

Diogma is a genus of crane flies in the family Cylindrotomidae.

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Dolichopeza

Dolichopeza is a genus of true crane fly.

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Dolichopezinae

Dolichopezinae is a subfamily of true crane fly.

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Elnoretta

Elnoretta is a genus of true crane fly.

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Enrico Brunetti

Enrico Adelelmo Brunetti (22 May 1862 – 21 January 1927) was a British musician and entomologist.

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Entomology

Entomology is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology.

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Euvaldiviana

Euvaldiviana is a genus of true crane fly.

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Family (biology)

In biological classification, family (familia, plural familiae) is one of the eight major taxonomic ranks; it is classified between order and genus.

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Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville

Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville, also known as F. E. Guerin, (12 October 1799 Toulon – 26 January 1874 Paris) was a French entomologist.

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Fish

Fish are gill-bearing aquatic craniate animals that lack limbs with digits.

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Fly

True flies are insects of the order Diptera, the name being derived from the Greek δι- di- "two", and πτερόν pteron "wings".

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Frederick A. Askew Skuse

Frederick Arthur Askew Skuse (c. 1863 – 10 June 1896) was a British-Australian entomologist.

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Frederick Wallace Edwards

Frederick Wallace Edwards FRS (28 November 1888 in Fletton, Peterborough – 15 November 1940 in London), was an English entomologist who specialised in Diptera.

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Fresh water

Fresh water (or freshwater) is any naturally occurring water except seawater and brackish water.

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Günther Enderlein

Günther Enderlein (7 July 1872 – 11 August 1968) was a German zoologist, entomologist and later a manufacturer of pharmaceutical products.

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Genus

A genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, as well as viruses, in biology.

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Goniotipula

Goniotipula is a genus of true crane fly.

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Grigory Bey-Bienko

Grigory Yakovlevich Bey-Bienko (Григорий Яковлевич Бей-Биенко; 7 February 1903, in Bilopillia, Russian Empire (now Sumy Oblast, Ukraine) – 3 November 1971) was a Russian entomologist who specialized in Orthoptera.

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Hermann Loew

Friedrich Hermann Loew (19 July 1807 – 21 April 1879) was a German entomologist who specialised in the study of Diptera, an order of insects including flies, mosquitoes, gnats and midges.

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Holorusia

Holorusia is a genus of true crane fly, including the largest known crane fly species, Holorusia mikado.

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Hovapeza

Hovapeza is a genus of true crane fly.

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Hovatipula

Hovatipula is a genus of true crane fly.

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Idiotipula

Idiotipula is a genus of true crane fly.

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Ignaz Rudolph Schiner

Ignaz Rudolf Schiner was an Austrian entomologist who specialised in Diptera.

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Indotipula

Indotipula is a genus of true crane fly.

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Invasive species

An invasive species is a species that is not native to a specific location (an introduced species), and that has a tendency to spread to a degree believed to cause damage to the environment, human economy or human health.

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Ischnotoma

Ischnotoma is a genus of true crane fly.

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Johann Wilhelm Meigen

Johann Wilhelm Meigen (3 May 1764 – 11 July 1845) was a German entomologist famous for his pioneering work on Diptera.

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John Curtis (entomologist)

John Curtis (Born: Norwich, 3 September 1791: Died: 18 Belitha-villas, Islington, London: 6 October 1862) - English entomologist and illustrator.

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John O. Westwood

John Obadiah Westwood (22 December 1805 – 2 January 1893) was an English entomologist and archaeologist also noted for his artistic talents.

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Jurassic

The Jurassic (from Jura Mountains) was a geologic period and system that spanned 56 million years from the end of the Triassic Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Cretaceous Period Mya.

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Justin Pierre Marie Macquart

Pierre-Justin-Marie Macquart (8 April 1776 – 25 November 1855) was a French entomologist specialising in the study of Diptera.

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Keiseromyia

Keiseromyia is a genus of true crane fly.

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Larva

A larva (plural: larvae) is a distinct juvenile form many animals undergo before metamorphosis into adults.

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Leptotarsus

Leptotarsus is a genus of true crane fly.

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Limoniinae

The Limoniinae are a paraphyletic assemblage of genera within the crane flies, Tipulidae, although they can usually be distinguished by the way the wings are held at rest.

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Liogma

Liogma is a genus of crane fly in the family Cylindrotomidae.

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Lord's

Lord's Cricket Ground, commonly known simply as Lord's, is a cricket venue in St John's Wood, London.

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Macgregoromyia

Macgregoromyia is a genus of true crane fly in the family Tipulidae.

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Mammal

Mammals are the vertebrates within the class Mammalia (from Latin mamma "breast"), a clade of endothermic amniotes distinguished from reptiles (including birds) by the possession of a neocortex (a region of the brain), hair, three middle ear bones, and mammary glands.

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Megistocera

Megistocera is a genus of true crane fly.

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Mosquito

Mosquitoes are small, midge-like flies that constitute the family Culicidae.

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Nephrotoma

Nephrotoma is a genus of crane flies.

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Nephrotoma appendiculata

Nephrotoma appendiculata, the spotted crane fly, is a species of crane fly.

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Newsround

Newsround (stylized as newsround, originally called John Craven's Newsround before his departure in 1989) is a BBC children's news programme, which has run continuously since 4 April 1972.

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Nigrotipula

Nigrotipula is a genus of true crane fly.

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Ocean

An ocean (the sea of classical antiquity) is a body of saline water that composes much of a planet's hydrosphere.

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Opiliones

The Opiliones or (formerly Phalangida) are an order of arachnids colloquially known as harvestmen, harvesters or daddy longlegs.

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Ornamental plant

Ornamental plants are plants that are grown for decorative purposes in gardens and landscape design projects, as houseplants, for cut flowers and specimen display.

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Ovipositor

The ovipositor is an organ used by some animals for the laying of eggs.

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Ozodicera

Ozodicera is a genus of true crane fly.

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Paraphyly

In taxonomy, a group is paraphyletic if it consists of the group's last common ancestor and all descendants of that ancestor excluding a few—typically only one or two—monophyletic subgroups.

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Pediciidae

The Pediciidae or hairy-eyed craneflies are a family of flies closely related to true crane flies, with about 500 species worldwide.

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Phalacrocera

Phalacrocera is a genus of crane fly in the family Cylindrotominae.

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Pholcidae

Pholcidae, commonly known as cellar spiders, are a spider family in the suborder Araneomorphae.

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Pholcus phalangioides

Pholcus phalangioides, known as the longbodied cellar spider or the skull spider due to its cephalothorax looking like a human skull, is a spider of the family Pholcidae.

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Phoroctenia

Phoroctenia is a genus of true crane flies found in northern Europe, eastern Russia, and western North America.

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Pierre André Latreille

Pierre André Latreille (29 November 1762 – 6 February 1833) was a French zoologist, specialising in arthropods.

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Platyphasia

Platyphasia is a genus of crane flies from Australia, containing the following species.

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Prionocera

Prionocera is a genus of true crane fly.

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Prionota

Prionota is a genus of true crane fly.

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Pselliophora

Pselliophora is a genus of true crane fly.

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Ptilogyna

Ptilogyna is a genus of true crane fly.

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Pupa

A pupa (pūpa, "doll"; plural: pūpae) is the life stage of some insects undergoing transformation between immature and mature stages.

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Rostrum (anatomy)

In anatomy, the term rostrum (from the Latin rostrum meaning beak) is used for a number of phylogenetically unrelated structures in different groups of animals.

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Royal Entomological Society Handbooks

Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects is a series of books produced by the Royal Entomological Society (RES).

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Scamboneura

Scamboneura is a genus of true crane flies; the majority of species are found in the Philippines.

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Sphaerionotus

Sphaerionotus is a genus of true crane fly.

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Spider

Spiders (order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs and chelicerae with fangs that inject venom.

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Spiracle

Spiracles are openings on the surface of some animals, which usually lead to respiratory systems.

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Stibadocera

Stibadocera is a genus of crane fly in the family Cylindrotomidae.

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Stibadocerella

Stibadocerella is a genus of crane fly in the family Cylindrotomidae.

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Stibadocerina

Stibadocerina is a genus of crane fly in the family Cylindrotomidae.

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Stibadocerodes

Stibadocerodes is a genus of crane fly in the family Cylindrotomidae.

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Stilts

Stilts are poles, posts or pillars used to allow a person or structure to stand at a height above the ground.

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Synapomorphy and apomorphy

In phylogenetics, apomorphy and synapomorphy refer to derived characters of a clade – characters or traits that are derived from ancestral characters over evolutionary history.

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Tanyptera

Tanyptera is a genus of true crane flies; its species are lustrous and black and yellow or red in color.

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Tertiary

Tertiary is the former term for the geologic period from 65 million to 2.58 million years ago, a timespan that occurs between the superseded Secondary period and the Quaternary.

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TheJournal.ie

TheJournal.ie is an internet publication in Ireland.

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Thorax (insect anatomy)

The thorax is the midsection (tagma) of the insect body.

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Tipula

Tipula is a very large insect genus in the fly family Tipulidae.

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Tipula oleracea

Marsh Crane Fly (Tipula oleracea) is a species of cranefly which is found throughout the Palaearctic and parts of the Nearctic.

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Tipula paludosa

Tipula paludosa is a species of true craneflies.

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Tipularia discolor

Tipularia discolor, the crippled cranefly or crane-fly orchid, is a perennial terrestrial woodland orchid, a member of the Orchidaceae family.

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Tipulinae

Tipulinae is a subfamily of crane flies.

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Tipulodina

Tipulodina is a genus of true crane flies.

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Tipuloidea

Tipuloidea is a superfamily of flies containing the living families Cylindrotomidae, Limoniidae, Pediciidae and Tipulidae, and the extinct families Architipulidae and Eolimnobiidae.

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Trichoceridae

Trichoceridae, or winter crane flies, of the order Diptera are long, thin, delicate insects superficially similar in appearance to the Tipulidae, Tanyderidae, and Ptychopteridae.

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Triogma

Triogma is a genus of crane fly in the family Cylindrotomidae.

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Tropics

The tropics are a region of the Earth surrounding the Equator.

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Urban legend

An urban legend, urban myth, urban tale, or contemporary legend is a form of modern folklore.

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Valdiviana

Valdiviana is a genus of true crane fly.

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Wicket

In the sport of cricket, the wicket is one of the two sets of three stumps and two bails at either end of the pitch.

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Willi Hennig

Emil Hans Willi Hennig (April 20, 1913 – November 5, 1976) was a German biologist who is considered the founder of phylogenetic systematics, also known as cladistics.

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Wingspan

The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip.

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Zelandotipula

Zelandotipula is a genus of true crane fly.

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10th edition of Systema Naturae

The 10th edition of Systema Naturae is a book written by Carl Linnaeus and published in two volumes in 1758 and 1759, which marks the starting point of zoological nomenclature.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crane_fly

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