| Phalacrocera | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Cylindrotomidae |
| Subfamily: | Cylindrotominae |
| Genus: | Phalacrocera Schiner, 1863 |
| Type species | |
| Limnobia nudicornis Schiner, 1863 [= replicata (Linnaeus, 1758)] |
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| Species | |
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Phalacrocera is a genus of crane fly in the family Cylindrotomidae.
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The larvae of the genus Phalacrocera live on mosses. Adults are to be found in damp wooded habitats.
Canada, USA, Myanmar, Taiwan, India, China, Japan, Europe, Most species have a fairly limited known ranges, with the exception of P. replicata which is fairy cosmopolitan in North America, Northern Europe and Northern Asia.