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Definition of Crane fly
1. Noun. Long-legged slender flies that resemble large mosquitoes but do not bite.
Generic synonyms: Dipteran, Dipteron, Dipterous Insect, Two-winged Insects
Group relationships: Family Tipulidae, Tipulidae
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crane Fly
Literary usage of Crane fly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1863-1871), Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1907)
"NOTES ON THE SWARMING OF A SPECIES OF crane fly. BY CHAS. N. AINSLIE, WASHINGTON,
DC The swarming habits of various families of flies, ..."
2. Design in Nature: Illustrated by Spiral and Other Arrangements in the by James Bell Pettigrew (1908)
"The analysis is based chiefly on the movements of the wing of the common house-fly,
the bluebottle-fly, the crane-fly, the bee, the humble-bee, the wasp, ..."
3. The Elements of Insect Anatomy: An Outline for the Use of Students in by John Henry Comstock, Vernon Lyman Kellogg (1899)
"ANATOMY OF THE LARVA OF THE GIANT CRANE-FLY ... of the United States) an account
of the anatomy of the larva of a crane-fly (Tipu- lidae) is presented for ..."
4. Magazine of Natural History edited by John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson (1840)
"SINGULAR mode of extrication of the Imago from the Pupa- case in a species of
Crane-fly. —My attention was drawn, during the autumn, to some dipterous larra ..."
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