Biology:Pediciidae
The Pediciidae or hairy-eyed craneflies are a family of flies closely related to true crane flies, with about 500 species worldwide.
Description
Pediciidae are medium-sized to large (5 millimetres (0.20 in), Dicranota; 35 millimetres (1.4 in), Pedicia flies which resemble Tipulidae. The wings, legs and abdomen are long and slender. Ocelli are absent. The eyes are pubescent; short erect hairs are present in between the eye facets (the eyes are usually glabrous in related families). The antennae have 12–17 segments.[1] The thorax has a V-shaped transverse suture. The wing has two anal veins. The apical crossveins and M-Cu form an oblique line. The wings of Pedicia have contrasting brown longitudinal stripes.[2] Full description
Fossil record
The oldest fossils of the family date to the Jurassic.[3]
Genera
- Subfamily Pediciinae
- Dicranota Zetterstedt, 1838
- Heterangaeus Alexander, 1925
- Malaisemyia Alexander, 1950
- Nasiternella Wahlgren, 1904
- Nipponomyia Alexander, 1924
- Ornithodes Coquillett, 1900
- Pedicia Latreille, 1809
- Savchenkoiana Kocak, 1981
- Tricyphona Zetterstedt, 1837
- Subfamily Ulinae
- Ula Haliday, 1833
Fossil genera
- Fragisternella Upper Oligocene, Asia
- Praearchitipula Itat Formation, Russia, Middle Jurassic, Ichetuy Formation, Russia, Jurassic
References
- ↑ Narchuk E. P. Key to the families of dipteran insects (Insecta: Diptera) of the fauna of Russia and adjacent countries (with a brief overview of the families of the world fauna) Volume editor V. F. Zaitsev. -St. Petersburg: Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2003. - P. 196. - 252 p. -ISBN 5-98092-004-8.
- ↑ Stubbs, Alan 2021 British Craneflies British Entomological and Natural History Society 496 pp. + 32 pp. colour plates.ISBN 978-1-899935-09-3.
- ↑ Gao, Jiaqi; Shih, Chungkun; Kopeć, Katarzyna; KrzemińSki, WiesłAw; Ren, Dong (2015-05-26). "New species and revisions of Pediciidae (Diptera) from the Middle Jurassic of northeastern China and Russia". Zootaxa 3963 (2): 240. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3963.2.5. ISSN 1175-5334. http://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.3963.2.5.
- "Catalogue of the Craneflies of the World (Diptera, Tipuloidea: Pediciidae, Limoniidae, Cylindrotomidae, Tipulidae)". Naturalis Biodiversity Center. https://ccw.naturalis.nl/.
External links
- Family :Pediciidae at EOL images.
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