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Tipula lunata Linnaeus, 1759 (a cranefly)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #macrophotos
Tipula lunata Male imago 30 May 1998 Berks England 4
Tipula lunata Male imago 15 May 1998 Berks England 8
Tipula lunata Female imago 15 May 1998 Berks England 7
Tipula lunata Male imago 30 April 1998 Berks England 7
Tipula lunata Male imago 3 June 1997 Berks England 3
Tipula lunata Male imago 25 May 1997 Berks England 2

Suggested Literature

Tipula lunata may be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
ANIMALIA
(animals)
ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)
HEXAPODA
(hexapods)
INSECTA
(insects)
DIPTERA
(two-winged flies)
NEMATOCERA
(thread-horned flies)
TIPULIDAE
(craneflies)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Tipula lunata is associated with:

There may be taxa associated with Tipula lunata listed at higher taxonomic level

DIPTERA
(two-winged flies)

Associated with Tipula lunata:

larva larva is endoparasitoid host of larva Admontia maculisquama - a parasitoid fly (Diptera: Tachinidae) Chiswell, J.R., 1956
Belshaw, R., 1993

Tipula lunata may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

ANIMALIA
(animals)
INSECTA
(insects)
DIPTERA
(two-winged flies)
NEMATOCERA
(thread-horned flies)
TIPULIDAE
(craneflies)
Tipula
(a genus of craneflies)

References

Belshaw, R., 1993 Tachinid Flies (Diptera: Tachinidae)
Chiswell, J.R., 1956 A taxonomic account of the final instar larvae of some British Tipulinae (Diptera; Tipulidae)

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