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Tipula
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Tipula

Tipula is a very large insect genus in the fly family Tipulidae. They are commonly known as crane flies or daddy longlegs. Worldwide there are well over a thousand species.

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6 branches of this group, most-observed first

Tipula oleracea species group

complexTipula oleracea

Tipula soror

speciesTipula soror

Tipulidea distincta

speciesTipulidea distincta

Tipula hyalaea

speciesTipula hyalaea

Tipula mashona

speciesTipula mashona

Tipula plumbea

speciesTipula plumbea

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 548112.