phantom crane fly

noun

Bittacomorpha clavipes

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Meanings

nounphantom crane fly (plural phantom crane flies)

plural phantom crane flies

  1. Bittacomorpha clavipes

    The common "phantom cranefly" may be easily recognized by the black and white banded legs and conspicuously swollen basitarsi.

    1943 (1966 reprint), Charles P. Alexander, Guide to the Insects of Connecticut Part VI, First Fascicle, page 187
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