Tipulidae

The Tipulidae are shredders, as they break down living and dead plant matter for food.

Insecta (Aquatic) 2008

The lines echo the 1817 entomology written by William Kirby and William Spence: tribes of Tipulidae (usually, but improperly called gnats) assemble ... and form themselves into choirs, that alternately rise and fall ...

The Loves of Plants and Animals: Romantic Science and the Pleasures of Nature 2001

Aculeus - ei: a prickle; a small sharp point; specifically, an ovipositor, especially when sting-like, as in Hymenoptera; in male Tipulidae a slender, horny, often curved and pointed piece, projected when the forceps is open.

Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith

Metanotum: the primitively upper surface of the third or posterior thoracic ring: in Diptera, the oval arched portion behind, beneath the scutellum best developed in flies with long, slender abdomen: e.g. Tipulidae.

Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith

In a larva of the crane-fly family (Tipulidae, fig. 20) living underground and eating plant-roots, like the well-known 'leather-jacket' grubs of the large

The Life-Story of Insects 1902

Diptera of the families Empidae, Asilidae, and Tipulidae have been found as far back as the Lias.

Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868