Crystal-wing Crane Fly - Megistocera filipes fuscana
Family Tipulidae
This page contains pictures and information about Crystal-wing Crane Flies that we found
in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
- Body length 20mm
- We recognized this Crane Fly by its very long slender legs. Wings are crystal clear with brown stigma and a very small discal cell. Male with antenna 5 times the body length. Female has much shorter antennae.
- The Crane Fly has the distinctive wing vein pattern. Sc is very long reaching free tip of Sc2. R2+3 angulated at mid-length. M4 angulated at base at point of union with m-cu. M4 originates before base of discal cell.
- Reference:
- 1. Wildlife of Tropical North Queensland - Queensland Museum Publications 2000, p103.
- 2. The Tipulidae (Diptera) of Australia I. A review of the genera of the subamily Tipulinae - NV Dobrotworsky, 1968, Australian Journal of Zoology 16(3) 459 - 494.
- 3. The Tipulidae (Diptera) of Australia XI, The Genera Holorusia Loew, Tipula Linnaeus, Nephrotoma Meigen, Megistocera Wiedemann and Brachypremna Osten-Sacken* - 1974 N. V. Dobrotworsky, Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 22(25) 63 - 75.
