Common Brown Crane Fly - Leptotarsus (Macromastix) costalis

Family Tipulidae

This page contains pictures and information about Common Brown Crane Flies that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.

Body length 15mm

 

 

This Crane Fly is fulvous brown in colour. On thorax there are the very light-brownish stripes. Rostrum is as long as head. Legs are long and slender. The abdomen is relatively small. 

 

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Reference:

1. Insects of Australia - CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University Press, 2nd Edition 1991, p741.

2. The Tipulidae (Diptera) of Australia. X. The genus Leptotarsus Guérin; the subgenus Macromastix Osten-Sacken* - 1974, NV Dobrotworsky, Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 22(25) 31 - 62.

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