Biology:Nephrotoma quadrifaria

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Short description: Species of fly

Nephrotoma quadrifaria
Nephrotoma quadrifaria01.jpg
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Tipulidae
Genus: Nephrotoma
Species:
N. quadrifaria
Binomial name
Nephrotoma quadrifaria
(Meigen, 1804)
Synonyms
  • Tipula quadrifaria Meigen, 1804
  • Tipula dentata Meigen, 1838
  • Pachyrhina fascipennis (Zetterstedt, 1851)
  • Nephrotoma dentata (Meigen, 1838)
  • Nephrotoma fascipennis (Zetterstedt, 1851)

Nephrotoma quadrifaria, also known as the four-spotted cranefly, is a species of true cranefly found in most of Europe and Great Britain.[1] The subspecies N. q. farsidica is found in Iran.[2]

Subspecies

  • N. q. farsidica (Savchenko, 1957)
  • N. q. quadrifaria (Meigen, 1804)

References

  1. Brock, Paul D. (2021-06-08) (in en). Britain's Insects: A Field Guide to the Insects of Great Britain and Ireland. Princeton University Press. pp. 343. ISBN 978-0-691-20499-4. https://books.google.com/books?id=m6G6DwAAQBAJ. 
  2. (in en) Beaufortia. Institute for Systematics and Population Biology (Zoological Museum), University of Amsterdam. 1977. pp. 88, 93. https://books.google.com/books?id=lNIYAQAAIAAJ. 

Wikidata ☰ Q1883450 entry