Nephrotoma

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Nephrotoma
Nephrotoma ferruginea.jpg
Nephrotoma ferruginea
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Tipulidae
Subfamily: Tipulinae
Genus: Nephrotoma
Meigen, 1828
Type species

Fabricius, 1781
Synonyms
  • Pales Meigen, 1800
  • Pachyrhina Macquart, 1834
  • Pachyrina authors
  • Pachyrrhina authors
  • Pachyrhyna authors
Nephrotoma alterna
Nephrotoma ferruginea mating
Nephrotoma submaculosa in copula

Nephrotoma is a genus of crane flies.[1]

For terms see Morphology of Diptera.

Nephrotoma species have a lustrous body, which is 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. Sc2 fuses with radial vein R slightly distal to the base of the radial sector vein Rs an this is not longer than mcu. m1 is sessile, only rarely short and petiolate. mcu is located before the base of the discal cell (d). Tergite 9 of male 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.

Species[]


References[]

  1. ^ "Catalogue of the Craneflies of the World (Diptera, Tipuloidea: Pediciidae, Limoniidae, Cylindrotomidae, Tipulidae)". Naturalis Biodiversity Center.
  2. ^ Skuse, Frederick A. Askew (1890). "Diptera of Australia. Part VIII". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 5: 53–139. Retrieved 28 October 2018.
  3. ^ Williston, Samuel Wendell (1896). "On the Diptera of St. Vincent (West Indies)". Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 1896: 253–446, pls. 8–14. Retrieved 3 June 2018.
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