Pediciidae

Pediciidae; Temporal range: Jurassic–Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
	Pedicia rivosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Infraorder:	Tipulomorpha
Superfamily:	Tipuloidea
Family:	Pediciidae; Osten-Sacken, 1859
Subfamilies
	Pediciinae; Ulinae;

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.

"Catalogue of the Craneflies of the World (Diptera, Tipuloidea: Pediciidae, Limoniidae, Cylindrotomidae, Tipulidae)". Naturalis Biodiversity Center.

External links

Family :Pediciidae at EOL images.

[1] 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.

[2] Stubbs, Alan 2021 British Craneflies British Entomological and Natural History Society 496 pp. + 32 pp. colour plates.ISBN 978-1-899935-09-3.

[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.

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