Pediciidae

The Pediciidae or hairy-eyed craneflies are a family of flies closely related to true crane flies, with about 500 species worldwide.

Pediciidae Temporal range: Jurassic–Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Pedicia rivosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Infraorder:	Tipulomorpha
Superfamily:	Tipuloidea
Family:	Pediciidae Osten-Sacken, 1859
Subfamilies
Pediciinae Ulinae

Description

For terms, see Morphology of Diptera.

Pediciidae are medium-sized to large (5 millimetres (0.20 in), Dicranota; 35 millimetres (1.4 in), Pedicia^{[citation needed]}) flies which resemble Tipulidae. The wings, legs and abdomen are long and slender. Ocelli are absent. The eyes are pubescent; short erect hairs are present in between the eye facets (the eyes are usually glabrous in related families). The antennae have 12–17 segments.^{[citation needed]} The thorax has a V-shaped transverse suture. The wing has two anal veins. The apical crossveins and M-Cu form an oblique line. The wings of Pedicia have contrasting brown longitudinal stripes.^{[citation needed]}

Fossil record

The oldest fossils of the family date to the Jurassic.^[1]

Genera

• Subfamily Pediciinae

• Dicranota Zetterstedt, 1838
• Heterangaeus Alexander, 1925
• Malaisemyia Alexander, 1950
• Nasiternella Wahlgren, 1904
• Nipponomyia Alexander, 1924
• Ornithodes Coquillett, 1900
• Pedicia Latreille, 1809
• Savchenkoiana Kocak, 1981
• Tricyphona Zetterstedt, 1837

• Subfamily Ulinae

• Ula Haliday, 1833

Fossil genera

• Fragisternella Upper Oligocene, Asia
• Praearchitipula Itat Formation, Russia, Middle Jurassic, Ichetuy Formation, Russia, Jurassic