Nephrotoma

Nephrotoma
Nephrotoma ferruginea
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Tipulidae
Subfamily:	Tipulinae
Genus:	Nephrotoma Meigen, 1828
Type species
Tipula dorsalis Fabricius, 1781
Synonyms
Pales Meigen, 1800 Pachyrhina Macquart, 1834 Pachyrina authors Pachyrrhina authors Pachyrhyna authors

Nephrotoma is a genus of crane flies.^[1]

For terms see Morphology of Diptera.

Nephrotoma species have a lustrous body, appearing yellow with black or brown stripes and spots. If the body is black, there are coloured bands on the abdomen. The prescutum has three stripes. The proboscis (rostrum) is short and the antennae are verticillate. The subcosta (Sc) fuses with radial vein R slightly distal to the base of the radial sector vein Rs whilst no longer than the mediocubital cross-vein (m-cu). The first media vein termination (m1) is sessile, rarely short and petiolate. The m-cu is located before the base of the discal cell (d). The male genitalia segment Tergite-9 has microscopic black streaks at the apex.

The species are found in deciduous and mixed forests, shrubland and moist meadows.

The larvae live in soil and are sometimes harmful to agricultural crops and ornamental plants.