Tipula

Based on the venation of its wings, I have identified this individual as a Tipula sp.

Archive 2006-04-01 AYDIN 2006

[Illustration: DADDY LONGLEGS, OR CRANE FLY = Tipula oleracea = (in various stages)] = = Daddy Longlegs = =, or = = Crane Fly = =, in its perfect form of a fly (= Tipula oleracea =) does no harm, but the grubs, known by the familiar name of

The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition Sutton and Sons

Tipula is capable of utterly destroying grass and of seriously ravaging the Kitchen Garden; but cultivation, aided by the robins, thrushes, nightingales, and other birds, will keep the insect within bounds, even after a hot summer favourable to its increase.

The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition Sutton and Sons

Crane-fly (_Tipula oleracea_), _a_, female; _b_, larva ( 'leather-jacket' grub).

The Life-Story of Insects 1902

'Daddy-long-legs' (Tipula) or burrowing into a rotting turnip or swollen fungus, like the more slender grub of a 'Winter Gnat' (Trichocera), the student notices a somewhat tough cuticle, a relatively small but distinct head, and frequently prominent finger-like processes on the tail-segment.

The Life-Story of Insects 1902

Among the flies, mosquitoes now appear, though they have not yet, perhaps, strayed far from their native swamps and fens; and their mammoth allies, the Daddy-long-legs (Tipula), rise from the fields and mould of our gardens in great numbers.

Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872

Tipula, The latter genus standing near the head of the Diptera.

Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872

Grasshoppers and other _Orthoptera_ were rare, as were _Hemiptera_; _Tipula_ was the common dipterous insect, with a small sand-fly: there were neither leeches, mosquitos, ticks, nor midges.

Himalayan Journals — Complete 1864

In four instances, leaves after catching insects never reopened, but began to wither, remaining closed -- in one case for fifteen days over a fly; in a second, for twenty-four days, though the fly was small; in a third for twenty-four days over a woodlouse; and in a fourth, for thirty-five days over a large Tipula.

Insectivorous Plants Charles Darwin 1845

A large crushed fly (Tipula) was placed on a leaf from which a small portion at the base of one lobe had previously been cut away, so that an opening was left; and through this, the secretion continued to run down the footstalk during nine days, -- that is, for as long a time as it was observed.

Insectivorous Plants Charles Darwin 1845