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Tanyderidae
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Protoplasa fitchii
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Protoplasa fitchii
Osten Sacken
Its broad wings
with prominent anal angles make this common “primitive crane fly”
easily recognized. Its other characters include wings with five
branches of the Radius vein; a single Anal vein; cell 1st
M2 closed, elongate; a supernumerary cross vein in cell M3. This is
the only species of this family existing in our area. Their wings
have distinct brown cross bands bearing pale spots in the center of
each band. The immature stages occur in wet sandy soil at stream
margins. The adults were collected from herbaceous vegetation and
low shrubbery near the margins of streams. This species is widely
distributed in eastern North America from eastern Canada to
northwestern Florida.
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Protoplasa
fitchii
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Protoplasa
fitchii
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