Giant Eastern Crane Fly
Pedicia albivitta Walker, 1848
Giant Eastern Crane Fly: https://www.marylandbiodiversity.org/species/15521
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Most frequently encountered member of its genus. Found primarily in the northeastern U.S. and southeastern Canada.

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Pedicia albivitta
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Pediciidae
Genus: Pedicia
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P. albivitta
Binomial name
Pedicia albivitta
Walker, 1848

Pedicia albivitta, the giant eastern crane fly, is a species of hairy-eyed crane fly in the family Pediciidae.[1][2][3][4] It is extremely similar to Pedicia goldsworthyi and only males can be distinguished, with their genitalia.[5]

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  1. ^ "Pedicia albivitta Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
  2. ^ "Pedicia albivitta". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
  3. ^ Oosterbroek, Pjotr (2018). "Catalogue of the Craneflies of the World". Retrieved 2019-07-02.
  4. ^ Petersen, Matthew J. (2006-05-30). "A new species of crane fly, Pedicia (Pedicia) goldsworthyi (Diptera: Pediciidae), from eastern North America". Zootaxa. 1220 (1): 55–61. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1220.1.5. ISSN 1175-5334.