Tasiocera
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| Tasiocera | |
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| Tasiocera murina | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Limoniidae |
| Subfamily: | Chioneinae |
| Genus: | Tasiocera Skuse, 1890 |
| Type species | |
| Tasiocera tenuicornis Skuse, 1890 | |
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Tasiocera is a genus of crane fly belonging to the family Limoniidae. Species have been recorded in Britain.[1] Members of the subgenus Dasymolophilus are characterized by narrow wings that are covered in dense setae which cover both the edges of the wing and the internal veins.[2]
It has a poor fossil record. For a while, the only fossil species that was discovered was Tasiocera circumcincta however two more species were discovered from Eocene resins, Tasiocera gorskii and Tasiocera baltica.[2]