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crane fly nounA slender two-winged fly with very long legs. The larva of some kinds is the leatherjacket. Also called daddy-long-legs in Britain.- Family Tipulidae: many genera and species, in particular the large and common Tipula maxima.
Except for observations of a long-legged crane fly, insect visitation has not been further observed....- Of particular interest is an intronless white sequence in a crane fly.
- Geoff is four years into a study of the insects whose less colloquial title is crane fly.
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