Details for Hexatoma (Eriocera) longicornis
Name:Hexatoma (Eriocera) longicornis (Walker, 1848)
Publication:List Dipt. Colln Brit. Mus. 1: 82 (as Anisomera)
Status:Recognized taxon.
Classification:Family Limoniidae
Subfamily Limnophilinae
Descriptive note:Short description in Alexander, 1943k (reprint: 1966g).
Keys:Podeniene and Gelhaus, 2015 (known last instar larvae and pupae Hexatoma USA)
Variant spelling(s):ligicornis
Distribution:Canada, USA (Alaska to Ont, NBr, NSc and Maine, south to Kans and NC).
Note: see the manual for abbreviations: Canada and USA.
Region(s):Nearctic
General note:Added: NBr and NSc (Alexander, 1919e), Kans (Gelhaus, 1982).
Biology:Alexander, 1910, 1919e (habitat, swarming). Alexander and Lloyd, 1914 (pupa, biology; information on the larva pertains to cinerea Alexander). Alexander , 1915f, 1920r (immature stages, biology). Young and Gelhaus, 2000 (habitat, phenology).
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references:
Wing: Needham, 1907 (refers to spinosa Osten Sacken); Alexander, 1912k; Alexander, 1919e; Alexander, 1934j; Alexander, 1943k (reprint: 1966g); Alexander and Byers, 1981

Immature stages
Larva: Alexander, 1920r
Pupa: Alexander and Lloyd, 1914; Alexander, 1920r
Citationson characters and taxonomy (mainly from 2000 onward):
Country not relevant
Characters. Hancock, 1997: 343 (comparison).
Phylogeny. Bertone et al., 2008: 674-679 (included in phylogenetic analysis of the earliest true flies based on multiple nuclear genes).
Phylogeny. Bertone, 2008: 1-282 (included in phylogenetic study on macroevolutionary relationships among families of lower Diptera (Insecta): molecular systematics, divergence times and a phylogeny of the Tipulidae sensu lato).
Phylogeny. Petersen et al., 2010a: 526-543 (member of a detailed morphological and molecular phylogenetic study into the higher-level classification of the Tipuloidea).
Immatures. Podeniene and Gelhaus, 2015: 96, 116-117 (key larva and pupa, systematic position).
on distribution (mainly from 2000 onward):
Canada
Distribution. Brodo et al., 2023: Table 1 & 4, page 20 (collected in far north Ont & distr in Canada, with details on its distribution in the Nearctic, especially Canada).
USA
Distribution. Bertone, 2008: table 1 (USA, Iowa, no further data).
on flight period (mainly from 2000 onward):
Canada
Brodo et al., 2023: month(s): 6.

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