Dictenidia bimaculata
| Dictenidia bimaculata | |
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| Dictenidia bimaculata male | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Tipulidae |
| Genus: | Dictenidia |
| Species: | D. bimaculata |
| Binomial name | |
| Dictenidia bimaculata (Linnaeus, 1761) | |
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Dictenidia bimaculata is a species of cranefly which is widespread throughout the Palaearctic.
In the genus Ctenidia the fourth and succeeding segments of the antennae bear a long basal process and a shorter subapical one. Female antennae with flagellar segments simple, and, apart from the first, short and roundish, broader than long. C. bimaculata Linnaeus is a shining, black species ; the thorax is black, with more or less extensive orange markings.The abdomen is entirely black in the male, black with anterior orange markings to segments,spreading laterally, in the female ; wings with two large dark brown spots, one extending down from stigmatic area to discal cell, the other, somewhat smaller, situated at apex ; legs orange, femora and tibiae black-tipped, tarsi blackish. The wing length is 10–15 mm.
C. bimaculata is found in damp woods from April to July
References
- ↑ Chandler, Peter J. (1998). Checklists of Insects of the British Isles (New Series) Part 1: Diptera. Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects. New Series. 12. London: Royal Entomological Society of London. pp. 1–234. ISBN 0-901546-82-8.