Basilewsky's cranefly
Appearance
Basilewsky's cranefly | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Diptera |
Family: | Limoniidae |
Genus: | Dicranomyia |
Species: | D. basilewskyana
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Binomial name | |
Dicranomyia basilewskyana Alexander 1977
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Basilewsky's cranefly (Dicranomyia basilewskyana) is an insect species. It was thought to be extinct for 50 years until 2016, when one landed on an entomologist driving a car in Saint Helena.[1]
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