Tipula lunata
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Tipula lunata is a distinctively coloured Crane Fly, but there are several other similarly coloured species, so ID is not easy. A common species found in well vegetated areas where they frequently visit Umbelliferous flowers. The lack of any long term study of Diptera at the Sherwood Forest NNR, meant that this was the first record of T. lunata for nearly 100 years that we know of.
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UK distribution of Tipula lunata
 

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Updated September 2011

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