Diogma

Diogma is a genus of crane flies in the family Cylindrotomidae.

Diogma
Diogma glabrata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Diptera
Suborder:
Nematocera
Infraorder:
Tipulomorpha
Superfamily:
Tipuloidea
Family:
Cylindrotomidae[1]
Subfamily:
Cylindrotominae
Genus:
Diogma

Type species
Limnobia glabrata
Meigen, 1818
Species

see text

Biology

The larvae of the genus Diogma live on mosses. Adults are to be found in damp wooded habitats.

Distribution

Palaearctic.

Species

References
  1. Zhang, Xiao; Kang, Zehui; Mao, Meng; Li, Xuankun; Cameron, Stephen L.; de Jong, Herman; Wang, Mengqing; Yang, Ding (2016). "Comparative Mt Genomics of the Tipuloidea (Diptera: Nematocera: Tipulomorpha) and Its Implications for the Phylogeny of the Tipulomorpha". PLOS ONE. 11 (6): e0158167. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0158167. PMC 4920351. PMID 27341029.
  2. Edwards, Frederick W (1938). "British short-palped craneflies. Taxonomy of adults". Trans. Soc. Brit. Ent. 5: 1–168, 5 pls.
  3. Alexander, C. P. (1949). "New or little-known Tipulidae (Diptera). LXXXIII. Oriental-Australasian species". The Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 12 (2): 178–205.
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